Salix babylonica L.
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Biostatus
Exotic
Uncertain
New Zealand
Political Region
Salix babylonica may have been imported to New Zealand in early European settlement times, but if so it has been replaced by S. ×pendulina. For example, all weeping willows present on the banks of the Avon and Heathcote rivers are the two forms of S. ×pendulina.
Nomenclature
L.
L.
1753
1017
ICN
Salix babylonica L.
species
Salix babylonica
Classification
Subordinates
Vernacular names
Descriptions
Salix babylonica L.
Large spreading tree to c. 30 m high; bark fissured, grey. Smaller branches, branchlets and shoots long, slender, pendulous. Shoots green or brownish green, rather brittle. Shoots and lvs with appressed hairs, soon glabrous. Buds very small, soon glabrous. Petiole 5-8 mm long. Lamina 6-13 × 1-2 cm, narrow-lanceolate, glaucescent or glaucous below, slightly shining above, rather remotely serrulate; apex long-acuminate. Lvs subtending catkins generally c. 3 × c. 0.8-1 cm; apex acute or short-acuminate. Stipules on long shoots with curved apices. Catkins ♀, appearing with and after lvs on short leafy shoots, 1.5-3 cm long, narrow-cylindric, often curved; rachis villous. Bracts 2-2.5 mm long, narrow-triangular or lanceolate-oblong, green; margin not incurved; apex acute. Gland 1, 0.5-0.6 mm diam., broadly rectangular or almost square, sometimes 2-lobed. Ovary sessile, glabrous.
Taxonomic concepts
Historic biostatus
Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Recorded as the heterotypic synonym Salix matsudana.
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 June 2021