Salix burqinensis

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Salix burqinensis
Systematics
Rosids
Eurosiden I
Order : Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family : Willow family (Salicaceae)
Genre : Willows ( Salix )
Type : Salix burqinensis
Scientific name
Salix burqinensis
Chang Y.Yang

Salix burqinensis is a small tree from the genus of willow ( Salix ) with brownish to yellowish green branches and 6 to 10 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China.

description

Salix burqinensis is a tree up to 15 meters high with trunks 50 centimeters in diameter at chest height . The twigs are brownish to yellowish green, initially hairy with fine felts and later balding. The buds are brownish, egg-shaped, elongated and hairy with fine felts. The leaves have deciduous stipules and a 5 to 10 millimeter long, partly glandular and tomentose stalk. The leaf blade is lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 6 to 10 centimeters long and 1.5 to 3 centimeters wide, acuminate or long acuminate, with a broad wedge-shaped or wedge-shaped base and a coarsely serrated leaf margin. The upper side of the leaf is green, the underside light green, sometimes finely hairy at the beginning, otherwise glabrous.

Male inflorescences are 3 to 5 centimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters diameter catkins with a tomentose-haired stalk that has three or four leaves at the base. The bracts are brownish or yellowish green, lanceolate and hairy down on top. The male flowers have three to eight stamens with free-standing stamens with tomentose hairs at the base and spherical anthers. Female inflorescences are unknown. Salix burqinensis flowers around the time the leaves shoot in May.

Occurrence

The natural range is in the north of the Chinese Autonomous Region Xinjiang along rivers at an altitude of about 500 meters. They are often found together with the white willow ( Salix alba ).

Systematics

Salix burqinensis is a kind from the kind of willow ( Salix ), in the family of the pasture plants (Salicaceae). There she is assigned to the Pentandrae section . It was first scientifically described in 1980 by Chang You Yang . The generic name Salix comes from Latin and was already used by the Romans for various types of willow.

use

It is a fast growing species whose wood is widely used.

proof

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. 177, 178 (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 burqinensis , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 178
  2. ↑ a b Salix burqinensis . In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed September 11, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Pentandrae , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 177
  4. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 552

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