Salix anticecrenata

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Salix anticecrenata
Systematics
Rosids
Eurosiden I
Order : Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family : Willow family (Salicaceae)
Genre : Willows ( Salix )
Type : Salix anticecrenata
Scientific name
Salix anticecrenata
Kimura

Salix anticecrenata is a low, pillow-shaped shrub from the genus of willows ( Salix ) with about 1.5 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in Nepal and China.

description

Salix anticecrenata forms pillow-shaped shrubs a few centimeters high . The leaves have a stalk about 1 millimeter long. The leaf blade is about 1.5 inches long, 0.7 inches wide, elliptical or obovate-elliptical, pointed, with a wedge-shaped leaf base and a notched leaf edge. Both sides of the leaf are almost bare, the upper side is green and somewhat wrinkled, the underside greenish. Four pairs of nerves are formed.

Growing, elliptical-headed catkins from five to six flowers are formed as inflorescences at the branch ends . The bracts are usually rounded and almost as long as the stamens, more or less membranous, glabrous, sparsely ciliate and three-veined . Male flowers have an adaxial and an abaxial nectar gland . The two stamens are 2 to 2.5 millimeters long, ingrown and bare. The anthers are yellow and elliptical. Female flowers have an adaxially located nectar gland. The ovary is 1.3 to 1.5 millimeters long, narrow ovate, bald and short stalks. The stylus is short and two columns, the stigma two-lobed. The flowers appear with or after the leaves shoot.

Occurrence and location requirements

The natural range is on mountain slopes at 3300 to 4200 meters altitude in Nepal, in the northwest of the Chinese province of Yunnan , in the west of Sichuan and in Tibet .

Systematics

Salix anticecrenata is a species from the genus of willows ( Salix ) in the willow family (Salicaceae). There she is assigned to the Lindleyanae section . It was first scientifically described in 1975 by Arika Kimura . 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. 214 (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 anticecrenata , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 214
  2. ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Lindleyanae , in Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 234
  3. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 552

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