Salix characta

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Salix characta
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Genus: Salix
Species:
S. characta
Binomial name
Salix characta

Salix characta is a shrub from the genus of willow (Salix) with initially downy hairy branches. The leaf blades have lengths of 3.5 to sometimes 7 centimeters. The natural range of the species is in China.

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Description

Salix characta is a shrub with gray-yellowish-brown or red-brown, initially downy-haired branches. The buds are red-brown and egg-shaped. The leaves have a 1 to 3, rarely 4 millimeter long, shaggy stalk. The leaf blade is oblong-lanceolate, rarely elongated, 3.5 to rarely 7 centimeters long and 0.6 to 1 rarely 1.3 centimeters wide, pointed or rarely pointed, with a pointed or rarely almost blunt base and a serrate and rolled-up leaf margin. The top is green and fine downy, gray-green, the bottom and along the midrib shaggy hair. [1]

The inflorescences are 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters long, dense-flowered, sitting or short-stalked catkins . The inflorescence axis is hairy down. The bracts are brown, elliptical, oblong or ovate, with a pointed or blunt tip and long downy hairs. Male flowers have an adaxial, linear or elongated nectar gland . The two stamens are bare. The female catkins are up to 4 inches long. Female flowers have an egg-shaped narrow at the base daunig hairy ovary on a fluff hairy stem. The stylusis lobed, about half the length of the ovary or shorter. The scar is short, entire or bilobed. The fruit forms 4 millimeter long, stalked capsules that are finely haired at the base. Salix characta flowers in May, the fruits ripen in June and July. [1]

Range

The natural range is in the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Hebei, in Inner Mongolia, in Qinghai, Shaanxi, and Shanxi on mountain slopes at altitudes of 2200 to 3200 meters. [1]

Taxonomy

Salix characta is a species from the genus of willows (Salix) in the willow family (Salicaceae). [1] There, it is the section vimen assigned. [2] It was described for the first time scientifically in 1916 by Camillo Karl Schneider. [1] The genus name Salix is Latin and has been from the Romans used for various willow species. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix characta, in der Flora of China, Band 4, S. 254
  2. ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Vimen, in der Flora of China, Band 4, S. 253
  3. ↑ Genaust: Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen, S. 552
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