Salix Sect. Magnificae in Flora of China @ efloras.org

8. Salix Sect. Magnificae C. K. Schneider in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 3: 113. 1916.

大叶柳组 da ye liu zu

Shrubs or small to large trees. Branchlets dull red to purplish black, stout. Leaves large; petiole long; leaf blade elliptic to obovate-orbicular, subleathery, smooth, glabrous, abaxially grayish blue or glaucous, margin entire or serrate, apex obtuse, rounded, or acute; lateral veins raised. Flowering coetaneous. Catkins long, to 30 cm in fruit; peduncle long, with 2-5 normal leaflets. Male flower: adaxial gland stout, usually depressed at apex, or 2- or 3-lobed, abaxial gland small, sometimes absent; stamens 2, distinct. Female flower: gland usually 1, adaxial, abaxial gland usually absent; ovary glabrous, sparsely pilose, sessile or stipitate; style conspicuous, 2-cleft; stigma thick, short, 2-lobed.

Key based on female plants

1 Catkin rachis glabrous. (2)

+ Catkin rachis pilose, rarely subglabrous. (3)

2 (1) Catkin more than 6 cm; young leaves entire at margin 55 Salix magnifica

+ Catkin to 4 cm; young leaves serrate at margin 59 Salix xiaoguangshanica

3 (1) Ovary sessile. (4)

+ Ovary stipitate. (5)

4 (3) Bracts villous abaxially 61 Salix medogensis

+ Bracts subglabrous on both surfaces 62 Salix contortiapiculata

5 (3) Adaxial gland linear or shortly cylindric 60 Salix radinostachya

+ Adaxial gland broadly ovate or semiorbicular. (6)

6 (5) Stipe to 1.5 mm; adaxial gland semiorbicular 56 Salix pella

+ Stipe less than 1 mm; adaxial gland broadly ovate. (7)

7 (6) Leaf margin glandular serrate 57 Salix moupinensis

+ Leaf margin indistinctly glandular serrulate or entire 58 Salix omeiensis

List of Keys

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