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9. Salix Sect. Denticulatae C. K. Schneider in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 3: 117. 1916.

繁柳组 fan liu zu

Shrubs. Branches short. Leaves usually small or medium-sized; leaf blade elliptic, oblong, or ovate to obovate, rarely suborbicular or lanceolate, abaxially greenish, pale or pruinose, pubescent when young, margin entire or dentate. Flowering nearly coetaneous, but young leaves very small at anthesis. Catkins slender, pedunculate; bracts yellowish green or reddish, usually nearly spatulate at apex, usually glabrous or ciliate. Male flower: gland solitary, adaxial; stamens 2, distinct, pilose proximally; anthers yellow, rarely red. Female flower: ovary ovoid, glabrous or rarely pilose, sessile or shortly stipitate; style short; stigma 2-lobed.


Key based on female plants

1 Ovary pruinose   94 Salix austrotibetica
+ Ovary not pruinose.   (2)
       
2 (1) Ovary sessile or subsessile.   (3)
+ Ovary distinctly shortly stipitate (sometimes subsessile in S.delavayana and S. ochetophylla).   (22)
       
3 (2) Ovary sessile.   (4)
+ Ovary subsessile.   (15)
       
4 (3) Ovary pilose (only at base in S. tenella var. trichadenia)   76 Salix pseudotangii
+ Ovary glabrous.   (5)
       
5 (4) Bracts pilose.   (6)
+ Bracts glabrous.   (11)
       
6 (5) Bracts pilose at base only.   (7)
+ Bracts pilose or ciliate.   (9)
       
7 (6) Bracts oblong; style 2-lobed; stigma 2-lobed   81 Salix mictotricha
+ Bracts obovate to orbicular; style short, entire.   (8)
       
8 (7) Ovary ovoid; stigma 2-lobed   63 Salix guebriantiana
+ Ovary ovoid-ellipsoid; stigma capitate, entire   69 Salix heishuiensis
       
9 (6) Bracts white villous on both surfaces   66 Salix daguanensis
+ Bracts villous only adaxially or marginally.   (10)
       
10 (9) Bracts suborbicular; ovary ovoid; capsule conical   67 Salix praticola
+ Bracts obovate-oblong; ovary ellipsoid; capsule subglobose   86 Salix cathayana
       
11 (5) Bracts broadly ovate.   (12)
+ Bracts not broadly ovate.   (13)
       
12 (11) Adaxial gland terete   84 Salix tangii
+ Adaxial gland ovate or quadrangular   82 Salix rhoophila
       
13 (11) Branchlets yellow or yellowish brown   68 Salix dissa
+ Branchlets neither yellow nor yellowish brown.   (14)
       
14 (13) Branchlets dark brown or with a blackish tinge; catkin 2.5-6 cm; bracts broadly elliptic-oblong   78 Salix wangiana
+ Branchlets brownish red or purplish; catkin 1-2.5 cm; bracts obovate   64 Salix tenella
       
15 (3) Bracts glabrous or slightly ciliate.   (16)
+ Bracts pilose.   (18)
       
16 (15) Bracts obovate-oblong or obovate; ovary ovoid-oblong or narrowly ovoid   77 Salix macroblasta
+ Bracts broadly ovate or suborbicular; ovary ovoid.   (17)
       
17 (16) Branches dark brown, not angled; catkin 2.5-5 cm; stigma entire   75 Salix hypoleuca
+ Branches black, angled; catkin 4-7 cm; stigma 2-lobed   72 Salix longiflora
       
18 (15) Bracts subglabrous on both surfaces.   (19)
+ Bracts pilose on both surfaces.   (20)
       
19 (18) Young branchlets pilose; young leaves dentate at margin   88 Salix denticulata
+ Young branchlets glabrous; young leaves entire at margin   70 Salix zhegushanica
       
20 (18) Cilia 2-3 × as long as bracts   80 Salix luctuosa
+ Cilia nearly as long as bracts.   (21)
       
21 (20) Peduncle ca. 3 mm   87 Salix maerkangensis
+ Peduncle ca. 20 mm   83 Salix polyclona
       
22 (2) Bracts glabrous or adaxially pilose at middle or base.   (23)
+ Bracts pilose.   (25)
       
23 (22) Bracts glabrous or abaxially pilose at base   89 Salix parvidenticulata
+ Bracts adaxially pilose at middle.   (24)
       
24 (23) At least young leaves pilose abaxially; bracts glabrous; stipe glabrous   65 Salix pseudowolohoensis
+ Young leaves glabrous abaxially; bracts adaxially pilose at middle; stipe densely pubescent   71 Salix zangica
       
25 (22) Bracts pilose on both surfaces.   (26)
+ Bracts pilose or glabrous on both surfaces, ciliate.   (29)
       
26 (25) Petiole with 1-3 glands apically   93 Salix minjiangensis
+ Petiole non glandular.   (27)
       
27 (26) Leaf blade orbicular or suborbicular   91 Salix zhouquensis
+ Leaf blade not orbicular.   (28)
       
28 (27) Bracts ovate or oblong-ovate, apex obtuse   92 Salix etosia
+ Bracts elliptic, apex rounded   85 Salix xizangensis
       
29 (25) Bracts with long hairs abaxially and at margin.   (30)
+ Bracts pubescent on both surfaces, margin ± ciliate.   (31)
       
30 (29) Bracts yellowish green, obovate or suborbicular   73 Salix paratetradenia
+ Bracts brownish distally, ovate   90 Salix ochetophylla
       
31 (29) Bracts orbicular, pilose on both surfaces , ciliate   74 Salix oreinoma
+ Bracts oblong-elliptic or long elliptic, brown distally, both surfaces pilose or glabrous, margin ± pilose.   (32)
       
32 (31) Flowers with only adaxial gland present   79 Salix delavayana
+ Flowers with adaxial and abaxial glands present   71 Salix zangica

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