| Salix cheilophila | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Salicaceae |
| Genus: | Salix |
| Species: | S. cheilophila |
| Binomial name | |
| Salix cheilophila | |
Salix cheilophila is a shrub or small tree from the genus of willow (Salix) with initially tomentose hairy and later balding branches. The leaf blades have lengths of 2.5 to sometimes 6 centimeters. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix cheilophila is a shrub or small tree up to 5 meters high with gray-black or red-black branches that are initially tomentose and then bald. The buds are hairy shaggy. The leaves have a very short stem. The leaf blade is linear, linear-wrong-lanceolate or wrongly lanceolate, 2.5 to 3.5 seldom up to 6 centimeters long and 3 to 5 seldom 10 millimeters wide, pointed or pointed, with a narrowed or seldom blunt base and serrated glandularly towards the tip of the leaf Leaf margin. The top is green and finely haired, the underside white-gray and densely hairy silky. [1]
The male inflorescences are 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters in diameter, almost sitting catkins with two to three leaves at the base. The bracts are obovate-oblong, with a blunt or edged tip and a downy, hairy base. Male flowers have a narrow, elongated, rarely bilobed nectar gland. The two stamens are completely grown together and bare, the anthers are yellow and four-fold. The female catkins are up to 2.5 inches long. The bracts are more or less round. Female flowers have a narrow, elongated nectar gland. The ovaryis ovate to ovoid-cylindrical, densely hairy or glabrous, sessile or with short stalk. The scar is short. Capsules about 3 millimeters long are formed as fruits. Salix cheilophila flowers from April to May when the leaves shoot, the fruits ripen in May. [1]
The natural range is in the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Hebei, Henan, in Inner Mongolia, in Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and in Tibet along rivers at altitudes of 700 to 3000 meters. [1]
Salix cheilophila is a species of willow (genus Salix), in the family Salicaceae. [1] It is assigned to the section Cheilophilae. [2] It was first described scientifically in 1916 by Camillo Karl Schneider. [1] The genus name Salix is Latin and has been used from time of the Romans for various willow species. [3] The type is very similar to Salix wilhelmsiana . [1]
There are four varieties:
Salix argyracea is a large shrub from the genus of willow (Salix) with up to 10 centimeters long leaf blades with a felty hairy and shiny underside. The natural range of the species is in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and China.
Salix capusii is a large shrub from the genus of the willow (Salix) with chestnut-brown branches and 4 to 5 centimeters long, gray-blue leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and China.
Salix cathayana is a strongly branched shrub from the genus of the willow (Salix) with brown or gray-brown, young tomentose hairy branches. The leaf blades have lengths of 1.5 to 5.2 centimeters. The natural range of the species is in the north of China.
Salix annulifera is a small shrub from the genus of the willow (Salix) with up to 8 centimeter long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix atopantha is a small shrub from the genus of the willow (Salix) with up to 4 centimeters long, dull brown leaf blades on top. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix bhutanensis is a shrub or small tree from the genus of willow (Salix) found in Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. It has young, densely brownish green tomentose hairy branches and 3 to 5.5 centimeters long leaf blades.
Salix calyculata is a low shrub in the willow genus Salix with mostly 8 to 15 millimeter long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China, Sikkim, and Bhutan. A distinction is made between two varieties.
Salix chienii is a large shrub or small tree in the willow genus Salix with initially light green and tomentose hairy and later reddish brown and balding branches. The leaf blades have lengths of 2 to 3.5 sometimes 5.5 centimeters. The natural range of the species is in China.
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.
Salix cupularis is a small shrub from the genus of the willow (Salix) with 1.5 to 2.7 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix daliensis is a shrub from the genus of willows (Salix) with mostly 5 to 6 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix daltoniana is a shrub or small tree from the genus of the willow with mostly 4.5 to 9 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and in Tibet.
Salix dalungensis is a small tree from the genus of willow (Salix) with mostly 4 to 5 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in Tibet.
Salix delavayana is a shrub or small tree from the genus willow (Salix) with mostly 3 to 8 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in the south of China and in Tibet.
Salix dibapha is a shrub from the genus of willow (Salix) with mostly 4 to 6 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix dissa is a low shrub from the genus willow (Salix) with usually 1 to 3 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix doii is a shrub from the genus of the willow (Salix) with mostly 3 to 4 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in Taiwan.
Salix eriostachya is a species from the genus of willows (Salix) and grows as a shrub. The leaf blades are 4 to 11 centimeters long. The natural range of the species is in India, Nepal, and China.
Salix ernestii is a species in the genus of willow (Salix) and grows as a shrub. The leaf blades are about 11 centimeters long. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix blakii is a willow (Salix) shrub with thin, brownish and bare branches and 4 to 8 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species extends from Southwest Asia to China.