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14. Salix Sect. Eriocladae K. S. Hao ex C. F. Fang & A. K. Skvortsov, Novon. 8: 470. 1998.
绵毛柳组 mian mao liu zu
Shrubs. Petiole short to almost absent; leaf blade very small, 8-20 mm at anthesis, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or lanceolate, rarely broadly lanceolate to oblanceolate. Flowering precocious or coetaneous. Catkins cylindric, pedunculate (sometimes male catkin subsessile), with leaflets. Male flower: glands adaxial and abaxial; stamens 2, distinct. Female flower: adaxial gland only present; ovary ovoid or ovoid-conical, pilose, sessile; style conspicuous, 2-lobed to -cleft.
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Male catkin less than 5 mm thick (rarely to 7 mm). |
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Male catkin more than 6 mm thick. |
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Young leaf blade lanceolate |
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174 Salix wolohoensis |
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Young leaf blade elliptic. |
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Young leaves with rust-colored hairs; bracts suborbicular |
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168 Salix inamoena |
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Young leaves with white or yellowish hairs; bracts obovate or ovate |
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169 Salix amphibola |
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Bracts truncate at apex; filaments ca. 5 mm; young branchlets glabrous |
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175 Salix resecta |
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Bracts rounded or obtuse at apex; filaments 3-4 mm; young branchlets pilose. |
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Male flower with only an adaxial gland; filaments ca. 4 mm |
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170 Salix driophila |
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Male flower with adaxial and abaxial glands; filaments ca. 3 mm |
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171 Salix erioclada |
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