Salix Salix, L

41. S. aurita L View in CoL „ Sp. Pl. 1019 (1753).

Shrub l-2(-3) m, with numerous patent branches. Twigs rather slender, soon glabrous, brown, usually angular and with wide-angled branching. Decorticated wood with ridges. Leaves 2-3 cm, c. 11 -2 | times as long as wide, obovate, shortly cuspidate with the cusp often obliquely recurved, more or less cuneate at base, undulate, toothed to subentire, distinctly rugose, dull grey-green and more or less pubescent above, more or less grey-tomentose beneath. Stipules large and conspicuous, more or less reniform, persistent. Catkins 1-2- 5 cm, appearing before the leaves, subsessile, cylindrical. In = 76. Europe, except the Arctic and the Mediterranean region. Au Be Br Co Cz Da Fe Ga Ge Hb He Ho Hs Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, E) Su.