Salix cyanolimenaea
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Salix cyanolimenaea is an up to 3 meter high shrub from the genus of willows ( Salix ) with 2.5 to 6 centimeters long leaf blades . The natural range of the species is in China.
description
Salix cyanolimenaea is a shrub up to 3 meters high. The branches are black-gray to reddish black, initially tomentose and later balding. The buds are egg-shaped and shaggy hairy. The leaves have a 1 to 3 millimeter long petiole. The leaf blade is obscure-lanceolate, 2.5 to 6 inches long and 0.5 to 1 cm wide, serrated towards the tip and curled down, with a narrowed or pointed base and a long, pointed or pointed end. The upper side of the leaf is green and finely hairy, the underside gray-white and silky hairy. Eight to ten pairs of side veins are formed.
The male inflorescences are 1.5 to 2 centimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters in diameter, almost sedentary catkins with two or three leaflets at the base. The bracts are obovate-oblong and downy hairy at the base. The tip of the leaf is blunt or edged. Male flowers have a narrow, elongated, sometimes bilobed nectar gland . Two stamens are formed. The stamens are bare, the anthers are yellow. Female kittens are 2 to 2.5 inches long and around 2.5 inches long when the fruit is ripe. The bracts are rounded. Female flowers have a narrow, elongated nectar gland. The ovary is ovoid or ovate-cylindrical, hairless and sitting. The scar is small and lobed. The capsule fruits are short stalked, about 3 millimeters long and glabrous. Salix cyanolimenaea flowers in April with the leaf shoots , the fruits ripen in May.
Occurrence
The natural range is in the Chinese provinces of Qinghai , Sichuan and Yunnan . Salix cyanolimenaea grows along rivers at altitudes of 2500 to 3000 meters.
Systematics
Salix cyanolimenaea is a kind from the kind of willow ( Salix ), in the family of the pasture plants (Salicaceae). There it is assigned to the Cheilophilae section . It was first scientifically described in 1882 by Henry Fletcher Hance in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum . A synonym of the species is Salix cheilophila var. Cyanolimnea (Hance) CY Yang . In the Flora of China, the species is called Salix cyanolimnea , which differs from the first description .
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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. 263, 264 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix cyanolimnea , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 264
- ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Cheilophilae , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 263
- ↑ Salix cyanolimenaea . In: The International Plant Name Index. Retrieved January 2, 2014 .
- ^ Henry Fletcher Hance: Salix cyanolimenaea . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . tape 20 . London 1882, p. 294-295 ( online ).
- ↑ Salix cyanolimenaea . In: The Plant List. Retrieved January 2, 2014 .