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5. Salix Sect. Amygdalinae W. Koch, Syn. Deut. Schweiz. Fl. 644. 1837.
三蕊柳组 san rui liu zu
Sect. Triandrae Dumortier.
Trees or shrubs; bark exfoliating. Branchlets weak. Leaves usually stipulate; leaf blade lanceolate, both surfaces glabrous, margin regularly serrate, apex acute or acuminate. Flowering coetaneous. Catkins shortly pedunculate; bracts greenish yellow or yellowish. Flowers with adaxial and abaxial glands. Male flower: stamens 3(or 4), free. Female flower: ovary glabrous, long stipitate; style and stigma very short.
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Stipules with small, yellow warts adaxially; bark dark brown or nearly black |
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23 Salix nipponica |
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Stipules not warty, or absent; bark brownish or yellowish gray to brownish gray. |
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Branchlets brown, tomentose during winter, glabrescent in spring; leaf blade adaxially dull green, abaxially greenish, margin glandular serrate |
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Branchlets brownish, glabrous or subglabrous; leaf blade green on both surfaces, margin entire or faintly shallowly dentate |
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24 Salix songarica |
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