科名：杨柳科 Salicaceae

属名：柳属 Salix

《中国植物志》第20(2)卷232页
  129.大苞柳 图版64: 1-4
  Salix pseudospissa Gorz in Journ. Arn. Arb. 13: 395. 1932.
  灌木，高1-2米。小枝较粗壮，多节，无毛，紫黑色或污色。叶倒卵形，长3-5厘米，先端微凸尖至急尖，基部圆形，上面暗绿色，下面发白色，侧脉8-10对，网脉不很明显，两面无毛，边缘有明显的锯齿。花与叶同时开放，长圆状圆柱形，长约3厘米，粗1.2厘米，花序梗无或极短，通常有1-3小叶，轴有柔毛；雄蕊2，长5.5毫米，花药黄色，花丝自下部或至中部以上不同程度的合生，中部以下有柔毛；苞片质薄，倒卵状长圆形，长5毫米，有明显的5(-7)条脉纹，先端圆截形，常有波状凹缺，两面有柔毛，呈覆瓦状包围花丝；腹腺1，卵形；子房圆锥形，长3-5毫米，有短柄，具金色柔毛，花柱明显，长1.5-1.8毫米， 2深裂至浅裂，中下部有短柔毛，柱头长，2劈裂，苞片同雄花，常包裹子房；腺体2或1，红色，腹腺卵状圆柱形，长达1.3毫米，背腺很小。果未见。花期6月。
  产青海、甘肃东南部、四川北部。生于海拔4600米的灌丛草甸中，或河岸及山沟斜坡上。模式标本采自甘肃省洮河岸边。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 4 (1999)
Salix pseudospissa  Goerz ex Rehder & Kobuski
大苞柳   da bao liu
Shrubs to 2 m tall. Branchlets purplish black or dull colored, stout, with many nodes, glabrous. Petiole short; leaf blade obovate, 3-5 cm, glabrous, abaxially whitish, adaxially dull green, base rounded, margin distinctly serrate, apex acute to acute; lateral veins 8-10 on each side of midvein. Flowering coetaneous. Catkins oblong-cylindric, ca. 3 × 1.2 cm, sessile or very shortly pedunculate, usually with 1-3 leaflets at base; bracts obovate-oblong, ca. 5 mm, submembranous, downy, 5 (-7)-veined, margin sinuolate-nicked, apex rounded-truncate, overlapping surrounding filaments or ovary. Male flower: adaxial gland ovate; stamens 2, ca. 5.5 mm; filaments partly united to nearly completely connate, basally downy; anthers yellow. Female flower: glands 1 or 2, adaxial gland ovate-terete, ca. 1.3 mm, abaxial gland very small or absent; ovary conical, ca. 3.5 mm, golden yellow pubescent, shortly stipitate; style 1.5-1.8 mm, 2-parted to 2-lobed, pubescent proximally; stigma long, cleft. Capsule unknown. Fl. Jun.
* Thickets on mountain slopes; circa 4600 m. SE Gansu, Qinghai, N Sichuan