Salix triandra

Subsp triandra: Bağ söğüdü

Shrub, rarely small tree, to 6 m tall. Bark smooth, peeling off in thin patches. Twigs thin and flexible, glabrous or velutinous-pubescent, olive- or reddish-brown, rather fragile. Buds ovoid, brown, glabrous or hairy. Leaves oblong-ovate, ovate-elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, usually 3-7 x as long as broad, 5-10 cm, acute or shortly acuminate, serrate, glabrous or finely velutinous-pubescent, dark-green above, pale green or glaucous beneath; petiole 6-15 mm, with 2-3 small subapical glands. Catkins appearing with leaves, on short leafy stalks, elongate-cylindrical; male 4-8 cm, slender, stamens 3, filaments hairy at base; female shorter and denser, flowers with 1 nectary, ovary ovoid-conical, glabrous; capsule 5-6 x 2-2.5 mm, fruiting pedicels 3-4 x as long as nectary. Style very short or lacking. Fl. 5-6. Usually in marshes, sometimes by streams or on river banks, 100-1950 m.

1. Shoots weakly pubescent, glabrescent; leaves ± narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, glabrous subsp. triandra

1. Shoots usually densely short-hairy, at least when young; leaves broadly oblong-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, ±densely velutinous subsp. bornmuelleri