Salix carmanica
Salix carmanica is a species of willow found in Iran, in Afghanistan, and in China where it is cultivated. It large shrub with blue-green bark and yellowish, drooping branches. The leaf blades reach lengths of 3 to 5 centimeters, with young shoots even more.
| Salix carmanica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Salicaceae |
| Genus: | Salix |
| Species: | S. carmanica |
| Binomial name | |
| Salix carmanica | |
Taxonomy
The species was described in 1934 by Rudolf Goerz.[1]
Description
Salix carmanica is a shrub up to 6 meters high with a smooth, blue-green bark . The branches are yellowish, drooping, thin and bare. The leaves have linear, about 2 millimeters long, deciduous stipules with a serrated leaf margin. The leaf blade is obsolete, 3 to 5 centimeters long and 5 to 7 millimeters wide, also longer on young shoots, short pointed, with a wedge-shaped base and a finely serrated leaf margin. Both sides of the leaf are colored the same, initially slightly tomentose and later almost bare.[2]
Male inflorescences are unknown. The female inflorescences are 1 to 2.5 centimeters long catkins with an approximately 1 centimeter long, tomentose-haired stem with two to three leaves. The bracts are yellowish green, oblong-obovate, about 1.5 millimeters long, with a truncated, edged tip, and bare underside. They fall off as the fruit ripens. The female flowers have a linear-lanceolate, about 1 millimeter long, glabrous or slightly hairy, sterile and 1 millimeter long stalked ovary . The stylus is about 0.4 millimeters long, the scaris two- to four-lobed. Salix carmanica flowers around the time the leaves shoot in May.[2]
Range
The natural range is in Iran, Afghanistan, and Chinese Xinjiang.[3][2]
References
- R. Görz: Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis, Band 35, S. 285
- Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix carmanica, in Flora of China, vol. 4, p. 270
- "Salix carmanica". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. 406512. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
Literature
- Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Hrsg.): Flora of China. Volume 4: Cycadaceae through Fagaceae. Science Press/Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing/St. Louis 1999, ISBN 0-915279-70-3, p. 267, 270 (englisch).
- Rudolf Görz: Einige kritische Salices aus Persien. Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis, vol. 35, Berlin-Dahlem 1934, p. 283–292.