Biology:Salix boseensis
| Salix boseensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Salicaceae |
| Genus: | Salix |
| Species: | S. boseensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Salix boseensis N.Chao
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Salix boseensis is a shrub from the genus of willow (Salix) with initially brownish, frosted and bare branches and 6 to 9 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China .
Description
Salix boseensis forms shrubs with brownish, 4 to 5 millimeters in diameter, bare and frosted young twigs. The leaves have a stem up to 9 millimeters long. The remaining stipules are greenish, more or less elongated or ovate, 3 to 4 millimeters long, glabrous and have an irregularly serrated or toothed leaf margin. The leaf blade is oblong or obovate-oblong, 6 to 9 centimeters long and 2 to 3.5 millimeters wide, with a rounded or blunt tip, a wedge-shaped to more or less rounded base and a serrated, seldom almost entire, leaf margin. The upper side of the leaf is green, the underside greenish, both sides are bare. The approximately 12 lateral Pairs of nerves are protruding.[1]
Male inflorescences are unknown. The female catkins grow on reddish-brown, bare, 4 to 5 centimeters long branches that can have leaves. They stand upright, are 7 to 10 millimeters long and have a stem about 1 centimeter long. The inflorescence axis is finely haired gray. The bracts are brown, irregularly ovate or oblong, 2 to 3 millimeters long, with a rounded or blunt tip, initially gray and shaggy hairy and later balding upper surface and bald underside. The female flowers have an adaxial nectar gland, an egg-shaped ovary, a nondescript style and two small, flat, bald scars . Conical, egg-shaped capsules about 5 millimeters long are formed as fruits on 4 millimeter long stems. The fruits ripen in December.[1]
Range
The natural range is in the Chinese Autonomous Region of Guangxi.[1]
Taxonomy
Salix boseensis is a species from the genus of willow (Salix), in the family (Salicaceae). It is assigned to the Wilsonia section.[2] It was described scientifically for the first time in 1984 by Neng Chao.[1] The genus name Salix is Latin and has been from the Romans used for various willow species.[3]
Literature
- Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 4: Cycadaceae through Fagaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1999, ISBN:0-915279-70-3, pp. 171, 173 (English).
- Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN:3-937872-16-7, p. 552 (reprint from 1996).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix boseensis, in der Flora of China, Band 4, S. 173
- ↑ Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix Sect. Wilsonia , in der Flora of China, Band 4, S. 171
- ↑ Genaust: Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen, S. 552
Wikidata ☰ Q2214526 entry
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