Salix Salix, Pau

68. S. tarraconensis Pau View in CoL in Font Quer, Treballs Inst. Catal. Hist. Nat. 1915: 7 (1915).

Shrub up to 1 m. Young twigs greyhairy, becoming glabrous in second year. Leaves 0-5-3 cm, suborbicular or elliptical-obovate, up to 1 | times as long as wide, with a small, oblique, deflexed apex, rounded or cordate at base, glabrous above except along midrib, greyish or glaucescent and subglabrous or with only very short hairs beneath; margin irregularly sinuate-crenate; lateral veins 4-5 (-6) pairs; petiole 0-5-2(-7) mm. Stipules present only on elongate shoots. Catkins 0-5-1 cm. Nectaries much shorter than bracts. Stamens united for at least half their length; filaments glabrous. Ovary greyhairy; pedicel c. 2 mm; style 0-3-0-4 mm. Calcareous rocks, 900-1400 m. • Spain (S.E. Cataluna). Hs.