Salix boseensis

Salix boseensis forms shrubs with brownish, 4 to 5 millimeters in diameter, bare and frosted young twigs. The leaves have a stem up to 9 millimeters long. The remaining stipules are greenish, more or less elongated or ovate, 3 to 4 millimeters long, glabrous and have an irregularly serrated or toothed leaf margin. The leaf blade is oblong or obovate-oblong, 6 to 9 centimeters long and 2 to 3.5 millimeters wide, with a rounded or blunt tip, a wedge-shaped to more or less rounded base and a serrated, seldom almost entire, leaf margin. The upper side of the leaf is green, the underside greenish, both sides are bare. The approximately 12 lateral Pairs of nerves are protruding.[1]

Male inflorescences are unknown. The female catkins grow on reddish-brown, bare, 4 to 5 centimeters long branches that can have leaves. They stand upright, are 7 to 10 millimeters long and have a stem about 1 centimeter long. The inflorescence axis is finely haired gray. The bracts are brown, irregularly ovate or oblong, 2 to 3 millimeters long, with a rounded or blunt tip, initially gray and shaggy hairy and later balding upper surface and bald underside. The female flowers have an adaxial nectar gland, an egg-shaped ovary, a nondescript style and two small, flat, bald scars . Conical, egg-shaped capsules about 5 millimeters long are formed as fruits on 4 millimeter long stems. The fruits ripen in December.[1]

The natural range is in the Chinese Autonomous Region of Guangxi.[1]

Salix boseensis is a species from the genus of willow (Salix), in the family (Salicaceae). It is assigned to the Wilsonia section.[2] It was described scientifically for the first time in 1984 by Neng Chao.[1] The genus name Salix is Latin and has been from the Romans used for various willow species.[3]

• Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 4: Cycadaceae through Fagaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1999, ISBN 0-915279-70-3, pp. 171, 173 (English).
• Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7, p. 552 (reprint from 1996).