Salix amphibola

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Salix amphibola
Systematics
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Order : Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family : Willow family (Salicaceae)
Genre : Willows ( Salix )
Type : Salix amphibola
Scientific name
Salix amphibola
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Salix amphibola is a shaggy, hairy shrub from the genus of willow ( Salix ) with leaf blades up to 4 centimeters long. The natural range of the species is in China.

description

Salix amphibola is a more or less shaggy hairy shrub . The leaves are stalked, the leaf blade is 1.2 to 4 inches long, 0.7 to 1.7 inches wide, elliptical to broadly elliptical, entire, with a rounded tip and a rounded base. The upper side of the leaf is dull green, the underside reddish green and yellowish gray and downy hairy along the raised central rib . 10 pairs of nerves are formed.

Kittens about 2.5 centimeters long and 4 to 5 millimeters in diameter are formed as inflorescences . The inflorescence stalk is about 5 millimeters long, shaggy and covered with leaves. The inflorescence axis is finely hairy. The bracts are about 1 millimeter long, obovate or ovate and have a shaggy, hairy leaf margin. Male flowers have an adaxially located, more or less egg-shaped nectar gland and two stamens with free-standing stamens that are finely haired at the base. Catkins are 3.5 inches long with a diameter of about 8 millimeters. Female flowers have an adaxially located, approximately 0.2 millimeter large, almost egg-shaped nectar gland. The ovary is sessile or almost sessile and more or less shaggy hairy. The stylus is about 0.3 millimeters long and bilobed, the stigma has two columns. The fruits are about 4 millimeters in size, elliptical-lanceolate, sparsely shaggy, hairy capsules . Salix amphibola flowers from April to May, the fruits ripen in June.

Occurrence and location requirements

The natural range is on mountain slopes at an altitude of 2300 to 3000 meters in the Chinese province of Sichuan .

Systematics

Salix amphibola is a kind from the kind of willow ( Salix ), in the family of the pasture plants (Salicaceae). There it is assigned to the Eriocladae section . It was first described scientifically in 1916 by Camillo Karl Schneider . The generic name Salix comes from Latin and was already used by the Romans for various types of willow. The specific epithet amphibola comes from the Greek, amphibolos means "ambiguous" and is used for taxonomically problematic species.

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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. 234-235 (English).
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix amphibola , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 235
  2. ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Eriocladae , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 234
  3. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 552
  4. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 58

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