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36. Salix Sect. Helix Dumortier, Bijdr. Natuurk. Wetensch. 1(1): 56. 1826.

筐柳组 kuang liu zu

Shrubs. Leaf blade lanceolate to linear. Flowering coetaneous or precocious. Catkins pedunculate or subsessile; bracts uniformly colored or 2-colored. Male flower: glands adaxial; stamens 2, connate throughout or filaments partly united; anthers 2- or 4-loculed. Female flower: ovary pilose or glabrous, stipitate or subsessile; style and stigma short or nearly absent.


Key based on vegetative characters

(Branchlets and leaves of Salix leveilleana )

1 Leaves opposite (except rarely shoot leaves), glabrous   263 Salix koriyanagi
+ Leaves alternate, pilose or glabrous.   (2)
       
2 (1) Leaves ca. 10 cm.   (3)
+ Leaves usually less than 8 cm (except on shoots).   (10)
       
3 (2) Leaf margin entire or remotely dentate.   (4)
+ Leaf margin conspicuously serrate.   (5)
       
4 (3) Leaf blade usually broader distally   260 Salix pycnostachya
+ Leaf blade broadest at middle, attenuate toward ends   265 Salix tenuijulis
       
5 (3) Branchlets glabrous; petiole not inflated   265 Salix tenuijulis
+ Branchlets ± tomentose; petiole inflated at base.   (6)
       
6 (5) Branchlets dark; young leaves abaxially densely tomentose   271 Salix suchowensis
+ Branchlets yellowish; young leaves abaxially glabrous or pilose.   (7)
       
7 (6) Petiole 1-3(-5) mm   270 Salix sungkianica
+ Petiole 8-12 mm   269 Salix linearistipularis
       
10 (2) Leaf blade more than 11 × as long as wide.   (11)
+ Leaf blade 6-7(-8) × as long as wide.   (15)
       
11 (10) Leaf margin coarsely dentate.   (12)
+ Leaf margin entire or shallowly dentate.   (13)
       
12 (11) Leaf apex long acuminate; stipules large, not caducous   272 Salix psammophila
+ Leaf apex obtuse or shortly acuminate; stipules usually caducous   261 Salix gracilior
       
13 (11) Leaf uniformly colored adaxially and abaxially   267 Salix caspica
+ Leaf 2-colored adaxially and abaxially.   (14)
       
14 (13) Leaf margin entire or shallowly dentate, not bony   264 Salix blakii
+ Leaf margin remotely sharply dentate, bony   254 Salix michelsonii
       
15 (10) Branchlets black; shrubs dwarf, alpine   266 Salix lamashanensis
+ Branchlets not black; shrubs or small trees.   (16)
       
16 (15) Leaf margin glandular dentate.   (17)
+ Leaf margin entire, subentire, shallowly serrulate, or indistinctly loosely serrulate.   (18)
       
17 (16) Leaf blade lanceolate or oblanceolate   262 Salix yanbianica
+ Leaf blade linear-lanceolate   268 Salix donggouxianica
       
18 (16) Leaf margin indistinctly loosely serrulate or subentire   257 Salix yumenensis
+ Leaf margin entire or shallowly serrulate.   (19)
       
19 (18) Branchlets purplish brown   259 Salix kirilowiana
+ Branchlets yellow or chestnut colored.   (20)
       
20 (19) Branchlets (pale) chestnut colored, often pruinose; trees not cultivated   255 Salix capusii
+ Branchlets yellow; trees cultivated   258 Salix carmanica

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