Flora of North America species comparison

stipules foliaceous, apex rounded, convex, acute or acuminate;

petiole convex to flat, or shallowly grooved adaxially, 3–18 mm, glabrous, pilose, or velvety to glabrescent adaxially;

largest medial blade lorate, narrowly oblong, or narrowly elliptic, 60–133 × 12–30 mm, 2.9–6.4 times as long as wide, base rounded, convex, or subcordate, margins flat, usually serrulate or serrate, rarely (apparently) entire, apex acuminate to acute, abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, sparsely short-silky or pubescent, hairs straight or wavy, adaxial dull, glabrous, sparsely short-silky, or midrib pubescent;

proximal blade margins entire, serrulate, or crenulate;

juvenile blade reddish or yellowish green, glabrous or sparsely to moderately densely pilose or puberulent abaxially, hairs white.

adaxial nectary narrowly oblong, oblong, flask-shaped, or triangular, 0.3–0.8 mm;

filaments distinct or connate less than 1/2 their lengths (or appearing as a single stamen), glabrous or hairy basally;

anthers purple or red turning yellow, (ellipsoid or globose), 0.5–0.8 mm.

adaxial nectary oblong, narrowly oblong, or flask-shaped, 0.3–0.9 mm, shorter than stipe;

stipe 0.9–2.5 mm;

ovary pyriform, glabrous, beak sometimes slightly bulged below styles;

ovules 12–21 per ovary;

styles 0.2–0.6 mm;

stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with rounded tip, or slenderly cylindrical, 0.16–0.25–0.4 mm.

4–6 mm.

flowering as or just before leaves emerge; staminate stout, 20.5–34 × 8–11 mm, flowering branchlet 0–3 mm; pistillate moderately densely flowered, slender to subglobose, 15.5–49 × 8–18 mm, flowering branchlet 1–6 mm;

floral bract brown or bicolor, 0.8–1.6 mm, apex acute or rounded, abaxially hairy throughout or proximally (hairs usually arising from rachis), hairs wavy or curly.

×pendulina Wenderoth: Weeping willow, S. babylonica × S. euxina, is introduced from Europe and grown throughout the world.

is characterized by: trees, 2.5–12 m, stems pendulous;

branches highly brittle at base, yellow-brown, gray-brown, or red-brown;

branchlets yellowish to brownish;

stipules foliaceous on late leaves;

petioles glabrous, pilose, or velvety to glabrescent adaxially;

largest medial blade amphistomatous or hypostomatous, very narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, or linear, margins serrulate, irregularly so, or spinulose-serrulate, abaxial surface glaucous, adaxial slightly glossy or dull;

catkins on distinct flowering branchlet, 3–14 mm; staminate loosely flowered, stout, 16–34 × 7–11 mm; pistillate densely or moderately densely flowered, slender or stout, 20–36 × 3.5–11 mm; pistillate bract persistent after flowering; staminate abaxial and adaxial nectaries connate and shallowly cup-shaped;

stamens 2;

anthers 0.5–0.6 mm; pistillate nectary longer than stipe;

stipe 0 mm;

styles 0.2–0.6 mm;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

capsules 1.8–3.5 mm.

= 38.