Salix eriostachya

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

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.

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Description

Salix eriostachya grows as a shrub. The branches are black or dark brown, bare or almost bare. The buds are finely hairy. The leaveshave a petiole about 1.3 centimeters long, hairy on top. The leaf blade is oblong, obovate or lanceolate, 4 to 11 inches long and 1.5 to 3 inches wide. The leaf margin is dentate with entire or distant glands, the base of the leaf wedge-shaped to broadly wedge-shaped, the end of the leaf pointed to a short point. The upper side of the leaf is dark green, the underside greenish. Both sides are initially downy or shaggy and later balding. The leaf veins protrude from the underside of the leaf. 15 to 20 lateral wire pairs are formed per leaf. The network-like veins are only vaguely pronounced. The stipules are ovate, about 1 millimeter long, glabrous and toothed. [1]

The inflorescences are about 3.5 centimeters long and 6 millimeters in diameter catkins . The peduncle is about 2.5 inches long and has small leaves. The inflorescence axis is velvety. The bracts are obovate, 2 to 3 millimeters long and hairy downy. The leaf margin is whole or cut out. Male flowers have an egg-shaped, approximately 0.5 millimeter long adaxial and a very small abaxial nectar gland . There are two separate stamensformed with downy hairy stamens at the base. The anthers are yellow. The fruiting, female kittens are about 9 centimeters long with a diameter of about 1.5 centimeters. Female flowers usually have two nectar glands, although the abaxial one may be missing. The adaxial gland is broadly ovate and about 0.5 millimeters long. The ovary is sessile and hairy white shaggy. The stylus is 2 millimeters long and divided into two parts. The scar is linear and divided. The fruits are narrow, egg-shaped, about 6 millimeters long and finely hairy capsules . Salix eriostachya blooms in June, the fruits ripen from July to August. [1]

Range

The natural range is in India, Nepal, Tibet, in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan. There it grows in the mountains at heights of 3000 to 5000 meters. [1]

Taxonomy

Salix eriostachya is a species from the genus of willows (Salix) in the willow family (Salicaceae). [1] There, it is the section Psilostigmatae assigned. [2] It was in 1851 by Nils Johan Andersson scientifically described, based on the description of an invalid by Nathaniel Wallich. [3] Representatives of the species are attributed by some botanists to the species Salix ernestii. [1]

The Flora of China indicates two varieties: [1]

According to The Plant List, a third variety is distinguished:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix eriostachya In: Flora of China. Band 4, S. 229.
  2. ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Psilostigmatae In: Flora of China. Band 4, S. 226.
  3. ↑ "Salix eriostachya". The International Plant Name Index. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  4. ↑ "Salix eriostachya". The Plant List. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
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