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Salix cinerea L.

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Salix cinerea L., Sp. Pl. 1021 (1753)
Salix cinerea L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
1021
ICN
Salix cinerea L.
species
Salix cinerea
Lectotype (chosen by B. Jonsell and C.E. Jarvis, Nordic J. Bot. 14: 151, 1994): Northern Sweden, LINN 1158.93, image seen.

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cinerea

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Salix cinerea L.

Shrub or small tree to c. 7 m high, often only 1-2 m, spreading or often forming dense thickets; bark rather smooth. Shoots not brittle, grey or greenish grey and remaining hairy, or reddish to dark purple and often becoming glabrous or glabrate, generally with pale brown markings and striations prominent below surface for c. 2 years. Buds reddish, glabrate or hairy. Petiole to c. 1 cm long on adult shoots, but often very short, hairy. Lamina 2-7 × 1.5-3.5 cm, often smaller at base of lateral shoots, generally obovate, sometimes elliptic, not bitter to taste, grey or glaucous below, generally ± densely clothed in soft grey hairs, sometimes rather sparsely clothed in harsher reddish brown hairs, soon glabrous and shining above except for midrib, glandular-serrulate to subentire; angle between midrib and veins > 45°; apex rounded to cuspidate. Stipules semi-annular, small, persisting on strong vegetative shoots. Catkins appearing before lvs, ? or ?, 1.5-3.5 cm long, broad-cylindric to cylindric-ovate, ± erect; rachis villous. Bracts 1.5-3 mm long, elliptic to oblong-obovate, black in upper 1/2, sericeous; apex obtuse to rounded. Gland 1, 0.5-0.8 mm long, ± rectangular to almost square. Stamens 2; filaments pilose towards base. ♀ fls with pedicels > bracts; ovary white-tomentose, stalked.

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Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.
Salix cinerea L.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Salix cinerea L.
Ireland
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Salix cinerea L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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typification
Lectotype (chosen by B. Jonsell and C.E. Jarvis, Nordic J. Bot. 14: 151, 1994): Northern Sweden, LINN 1158.93, image seen.

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 December 2023
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