Salix characta

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Salix characta
Systematics
Rosids
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Order : Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family : Willow family (Salicaceae)
Genre : Willows ( Salix )
Type : Salix characta
Scientific name
Salix characta
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Salix characta is a shrub belonging to the genus of willow ( Salix ) with twigs that are initially downy. The leaf blades have lengths of 3.5 to sometimes 7 centimeters. The natural range of the species is in China.

description

Salix characta is a shrub with gray-yellowish-brown or red-brown, initially downy-haired branches. The buds are red-brown and egg-shaped. The leaves have a 1 to 3, rarely 4 millimeter long, shaggy stalk. The leaf blade is elongated-lanceolate, rarely elongated, 3.5 to rarely 7 centimeters long and 0.6 to 1 rarely 1.3 centimeters wide, pointed or rarely pointed, with a pointed or seldom almost blunt base and a serrate and curled leaf margin. The upper side is green and finely downy, the underside gray-green and shaggy hairy along the central rib .

The inflorescences are 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters long, dense-flowered, sedentary or short-stalked catkins . The inflorescence axis is hairy down. The bracts are brown, elliptical, oblong or ovate, with a pointed or blunt tip and long downy hairs. Male flowers have an adaxial , linear or elongated nectar gland . The two stamens are bare. The female kittens are up to 4 inches long. Female flowers have an egg-shaped narrow at the base daunig hairy ovary on a fluff hairy stem. The stylus lobed, about half as long as the ovary or shorter. The scar is short, entire or bilobed. The fruit forms 4 millimeter long, stalked capsules with finely hair at the base . Salix characta flowers in May, the fruits ripen in June and July.

Occurrence

The natural range is in the Chinese provinces of Gansu , Hebei , in Inner Mongolia , in Qinghai , Shaanxi and Shanxi on mountain slopes at altitudes of 2200 to 3200 meters.

Systematics

Salix characta is a species from the genus of willows ( Salix ) in the willow family (Salicaceae). There it is assigned to the Vimen 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.

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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. 253, 254 (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 characta , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 254
  2. ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Vimen , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 253
  3. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 552

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