Salix contortiapiculata

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Salix contortiapiculata
Systematics
Rosids
Eurosiden I
Order : Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family : Willow family (Salicaceae)
Genre : Willows ( Salix )
Type : Salix contortiapiculata
Scientific name
Salix contortiapiculata
PI Mao & WZLi

Salix contortiapiculata is a tall shrub from the genus of willow ( Salix ) with 5 to 9 centimeters long leaf blades . The natural range of the species is in China.

description

Salix contortiapiculata is a shrub up to 4 meters high . The branches are dark purple-red and hairless. The buds are purple-red, broadly ovate, about 5 millimeters long, hairless and have a blunt tip. The leaves have a 0.6 to 1.4 centimeter long petiole, which is hairy rust-brown on the upper side. The leaf blade is obovate-oblong, 5 to 9 inches long and 2.2 to 4.2 inches wide, with entire or sparsely toothed edges. The leaf base is broadly wedge-shaped or more or less rounded, the tip is twisted and pointed. The upper side of the leaf is green, glabrous or hairy red near the base along the midrib, the underside is pale or slightly glaucous , initially shaggy and hairy later.

Male inflorescences are unknown. The female kittens are 5 to 7 inches long with a diameter of about 7 millimeters. The peduncle is 2.5 to 4 inches long and has three or four leaves. The inflorescence axis is finely hairy. The bracts are broadly elongated, about 2.5 millimeters long, loosely hairy or almost hairless on the underside and on the leaf margin. The tip of the leaf is blunt-rounded or wavy-serrated. Female flowers have a adaxial lying nectar gland . The ovary is ovoid-conical, glabrous, sitting or near sitting. The stylus is about 1 millimeter long and bilobed, the stigma is also bilobed. The fruits of Salix contortiapiculata ripen in July.

Occurrence

The natural range is in the Chinese province of Yunnan in the districts of Gongshan , Drungzu , Nuzu and Zizhixian . Salix contortiapiculata grows near rivers in the mountains at altitudes of 1300 to 1900 meters.

Systematics

Salix contortiapiculata is a species from the genus of willows ( Salix ) in the willow family (Salicaceae). There it is assigned to the Magnificae section . It was not scientifically described for the first time until 1987 by Pin I Mao and Li Wen Zheng in the Acta Botanica Yunnanica . No synonyms are known. The generic name Salix comes from Latin and was already used by the Romans for various types of willow.

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literature

  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 4: Cycadaceae through Fagaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1999, ISBN 0-915279-70-3 , pp. 192, 210 (English).
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 , p. 552 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix contortiapiculata , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 210
  2. ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Magnificae , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 192
  3. ^ Salix contortiapiculata . In: The International Plant Name Index. Retrieved January 1, 2014 .
  4. ^ Salix contortiapiculata . In: The Plant List. Retrieved January 1, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 552

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