Salix taxifolia Kunth

Shrubs or trees, 2-16 m. Stems: branches red-brown, yellow-brown, or gray-brown, hairy or glabrous; branchlets yellow-brown, very densely long-silky, villous, or short-silky to glabrescent. Leaves: stipules absent or rudimentary; petiole (sometimes deeply grooved adaxially) 0.2-1.5 mm, long-to short-silky adaxially; largest medial blade linear, lorate, or narrowly oblanceolate, 13-42 × 1.1-4.4 mm, 5.8-24.6 times as long as wide, base cuneate, margins flat, usually entire, rarely remotely spinulose-serrulate, apex acute to acuminate (apiculate), abaxial surface glaucous or not (sometimes obscured by hairs), densely long-silky, or villous to glabrescent, hairs appressed, straight, adaxial slightly glossy or dull, moderately densely long-or short-silky to glabrescent; proximal blade margins entire; juvenile blade yellowish green (color obscured by hairs), very densely long-silky abaxially. Catkins: staminate 6.5-18 × 4-7 mm, flowering branchlet 1-38(-75) mm; pistillate moderately densely or loosely flowered, slender or stout, 6-16 × 4-7 mm, flowering branchlet 8-13(-120) mm; floral bract 1.3-2.8 mm, apex acute or convex, toothed or entire (glandular-dotted), abaxially hairy throughout or proximally, hairs straight. Staminate flowers: abaxial nectary 0.1-0.6 mm, adaxial nectary oblong or narrowly oblong, 0.5-1.1 mm, nectaries distinct; filaments hairy on proximal 1/2 or basally; anthers 0.4-0.7 mm. Pistillate flowers: adaxial nectary square, narrowly oblong, ovate, or oblong, 0.4-1.4 mm, longer than stipe; stipe 0-0.3 mm; ovary pyriform, long-silky or pilose, beak gradually tapering to or bulged below styles; ovules 16-26 per ovary; styles 0-0.3 mm; stigmas slenderly cylindrical, 0.4-0.6 mm. Capsules 3-6 mm.

Prefers growing by cool streams, along seasonally dry stream beds and in canyons; at elevations from 900-1,800 metres. Found in oak forests, desert grassland and by streams in desert areas.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.