Salix kirilowiana Stschegl.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Salicaceae > Salix

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees; crown low and broad. Branches arcuate, slender; 2-and 3-year-old branchlets usually dark purplish brown. Leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, thin, somewhat glaucous, abaxially silvery when young, margin entire, rarely with extremely tiny denticles, apex thinly sharpened. Peduncles 3-12 cm, with 1-3 small leaflets; bracts pale, yellowish or pinkish, glabrous or very slightly pubescent, obtuse. Male flower: filaments wholly connate, densely hairy at base. Female catkin with bracts at least partly caducous. Female flower: gland adaxial, quadrangular, shorter than pedicel; style and stigma minute. Capsule narrowly conical, glabrous, shortly pedicellate.
Life form perennial
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Distribution

Salix kirilowiana world distribution map, present in China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:777937-1
WFO ID wfo-0000928693
COL ID 79C7D
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Synonyms

Salix issykiensis Salix lipskyi Salix alba-viminalis Salix kirilowiana