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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 female plants

1 Ovary and capsule glabrous.   (2)
+ Ovary and capsule pilose.   (8)
       
2 (1) Bracts hairy.   (3)
+ Bracts glabrous abaxially.   (4)
       
3 (2) Bracts long sericeous abaxially   256 Salix leveilleana
+ Bracts villous only proximally and at margin   257 Salix yumenensis
       
4 (2) Bracts abaxially wrinkled, persistent   260 Salix pycnostachya
+ Bracts not wrinkled, completely or partly caducous after anthesis.   (5)
       
5 (4) Bracts brownish or blackish; leaf blade of fruiting branchlets 11-16 × as long as wide   254 Salix michelsonii
+ Bracts pale; leaf blade of fruiting branchlets 5-10 × as long as wide.   (6)
       
6 (5) Mature shoots dark; young leaves tender, abaxially silvery pubescent   259 Salix kirilowiana
+ Mature shoots pale; leaves somewhat rigid, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.   (7)
       
7 (6) Capsule conical, normally developed; branchlets chestnut-brown   255 Salix capusii
+ Capsule linear-lanceolate; branchlets yellowish   258 Salix carmanica
       
8 (1) Catkins opposite, rarely alternate, sessile; flowering precocious   263 Salix koriyanagi
+ Catkins alternate; flowering nearly coetaneous.   (9)
       
9 (8) Catkin pedunculate; leaflets on peduncle not deciduous (except sometimes in S. tenuijulis).   (10)
+ Catkin sessile or shortly pedunculate; scalelike leaflets on peduncle readily deciduous.   (15)
       
10 (9) Leaf blade of flowering branchlets linear, ± equally wide proximally and distally.   (11)
+ Leaf blade of flowering branchlets usually broadest above middle.   (12)
       
11 (10) Juvenile branchlets tomentose   265 Salix tenuijulis
+ Juvenile branchlets glabrous   264 Salix blakii
       
12 (10) Margin of young leaves dentate.   (13)
+ Margin of young leaves nearly entire.   (14)
       
13 (12) Leaf blade 11-16 × as long as wide; bracts glabrous or pilose   261 Salix gracilior
+ Leaf blade 6-7 × as long as wide; bracts white downy   262 Salix yanbianica
       
14 (12) Bracts abaxially wrinkled, persistent   260 Salix pycnostachya
+ Bracts abaxially not wrinkled, caducous during fruiting   258 Salix carmanica
       
15 (9) Shrubs dwarf, alpine; branchlets blackened   266 Salix lamashanensis
+ Shrubs of low mountains or plains; branchlets not blackened.   (16)
       
16 (15) Style very short to absent.   (17)
+ Style conspicuous to relatively large.   (19)
       
17 (16) Bracts 2-colored; leaves coarsely serrate   269 Salix linearistipularis
+ Bracts uniformly colored; leaves entire or obtusely serrate.   (18)
       
18 (17) Leaves entire   267 Salix caspica
+ Leaves loosely obtusely serrate   268 Salix donggouxianica
       
19 (16) Catkin 4-6 cm × 5-8 mm; bracts densely gray tomentose, black distally   270 Salix sungkianica
+ Catkin 1-4 cm × 3-5 mm; bracts uniformly colored or 2-colored.   (20)
       
20 (19) Scalelike leaflets on peduncle abaxially glabrous or pilose; bracts uniformly colored; branchlets yellowish or purplish red; leaf blade lanceolate   271 Salix suchowensis
+ Scalelike leaflets on peduncle abaxially densely villous; bracts 2-colored; branchlets yellowish; leaf blade linear   272 Salix psammophila

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