Salix chaenomeloides
Salix chaenomeloides
Salix chaenomeloides is a small tree from the kind of willow ( Salix) with dark brown or reddish brown branches. The leaf blades have lengths of 4-8 centimeters. The natural range of the species is located in Japan, Korea and China.
Description
Salix chaenomeloides is a small tree with dark brown or reddish brown, shiny branches. The leaves have a 5 to 12 mm long, hairy at first fluff and later verkahlenden, occupied with glandular stem. Leaves with stipules have semicircular or kidney-shaped, glandular sawn and early falling leaf blades. Otherwise, the leaf blade is elliptic, ovate or elliptic- lanceolate, 4-8 cm long and 1.8 to 3.5 rarely 4 inches wide, pointed with wedge-shaped, rarely rounded or heart- shaped base and glandular dentate or serrated leaf edge. Both sides are bare, the top is green, the lower surface pale green or gray.
The male inflorescences are 4-5 cm long catkins. The inflorescence stem and the inflorescence axis are hairy daunig. The bracts are ovate and about 1 millimeter long. Male flowers often have five stamens, the stamens are about 2 millimeters long and fine hairs at the base, the anthers are yellow and round. The female kitten 4 to 5.5 inches long with a diameter of about 1 centimeter. The peduncle is about 2 inches long, the inflorescence axis is hairy tomentose. The bracts are elliptic - obovate. Female flowers have two nectar glands, a large adaxial and abaxial a little. The ovary is long-petiolate, narrowly ovate and glabrous. The scar is capitate or emarginate. As fruit ovate - elliptic, 3-7 mm long capsules are formed. Salix chaenomeloides flowers in April, the fruits ripen in May.
Occurrence
The natural range is in Japan, the Korean Peninsula and in the Chinese provinces of Hebei, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shaanxi and Sichuan. It grows in China at altitudes below 1100 meters.
System
Salix chaenomeloides is a species in the genus of willows ( Salix) in the family of the willow family ( Salicaceae ). There she is assigned to the section wilsonia. It was described in 1938 by Kimura Arika first time scientifically. The genus name Salix comes from Latin and was already used by the Romans for various species of willows.
There are two varieties: Salix chaenomeloides var chaenomeloides: The glands of the petiole are not leaf-shaped, leaf margin serrate, base wedge -shaped. Salix chaenomeloides var glandulifolia ( C.Wang & CYYu ) CFFang: The glands of the petiole are leaf-shaped, the leaf margin is serrated, the base rounded or rarely heart-shaped.