Salix Salix, Scop.

62. S. elaeagnos Scop. View in CoL , FZ. Cam. ed. 2, 2: 257 (1772)

( S. incana Schrank ).

Shrub up to 6 m, or rarely tree up to 16 m. Twigs slender, yellowish- to reddish-brown, thinly covered with whitish hairs when young. Leaves erect, linear-lanceolate to narrowly linear, tapering at both ends, densely lanate on both surfaces when young, more or less glabrescent above, remaining lanate beneath, not shiny; margin deflexed, finely glandular-serrate, mainly in the apical part; veins more or less impressed above, slightly prominent beneath, often not visible because of the dense indumentum; petiole up to 5 mm. Stipules usually absent. Catkins up to 6 x 0- 8 cm; peduncle up to 1 cm, with small, lanceolate leaves. Bracts about half as long as the ovary. Filaments united at the base or up to the middle, hairy near the base. Ovary glabrous; pedicel about | as long as the ovary. C. Europe extending to France, Spain, Italy and the Ukrainian Carpathians. Al Au Bu Co Cz Ga Ge Gr He Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (W) [Ho].