Salix carmanica

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Salix carmanica
Systematics
Rosids
Eurosiden I
Order : Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family : Willow family (Salicaceae)
Genre : Willows ( Salix )
Type : Salix carmanica
Scientific name
Salix carmanica
Bornm. ex Goerz

Salix carmanica is a large shrub from the genus of the willow ( Salix ) with blue-green bark and yellowish, drooping branches. The leaf blades reach lengths of 3 to 5 centimeters, with young shoots even more. The natural range of the species is in Iran, Afghanistan and China it is cultivated.

description

Salix carmanica is a shrub up to 6 meters high with a smooth, blue-green bark . The branches are yellowish, drooping, thin and bare. The leaves have linear, about 2 millimeters long, deciduous stipules with a serrated leaf margin. The leaf blade is obscure-lanceolate, 3 to 5 centimeters long and 5 to 7 millimeters wide, also longer on young shoots, short pointed, with a wedge-shaped base and a finely serrated leaf margin. Both sides of the leaf are the same color, initially slightly tomentose and later almost bare.

Male inflorescences are unknown. The female inflorescences are 1 to 2.5 centimeters long catkins with an approximately 1 centimeter long, tomentose-haired stalk with two to three leaves. The bracts are yellowish green, oblong-obovate, about 1.5 millimeters long, with a truncated, edged tip, and bare underside. They fall off as the fruit ripens. The female flowers have a linear-lanceolate, about 1 millimeter long, glabrous or slightly hairy, sterile and 1 millimeter long stalked ovary . The stylus is about 0.4 millimeters long, the stigma has two to four lobes. Salix carmanica flowers around the time the leaves shoot in May.

Occurrence

The natural range is in Iran, Afghanistan and the Chinese Xinjiang .

Systematics

Salix carmanica is a kind from the kind of willow ( Salix ), in the family of the pasture plants (Salicaceae). There it is assigned to the Helix section . It was first scientifically described by Rudolf Görz in 1934 . 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. 267, 270 (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).
  • Rudolf Görz: Some critical salices from Persia. Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis , Volume 35, Berlin-Dahlem 1934, pp. 283-292.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix carmanica , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 270
  2. ↑ a b Salix carmanica . In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed September 18, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Helix , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 267
  4. ^ R. Görz: Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis , Volume 35, p. 285
  5. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 552

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