Flora of North America species comparison

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Salix sect. Chamaetia
Habit Plants 0.01–1.5 m, sometimes clonal by layering or rhizomes.
Staminate flowers

filaments glabrous or hairy.
Pistillate flowers

abaxial nectary sometimes present, then distinct, or connate to adaxial and forming a cup;

ovary not glaucous, sparsely to very densely short-silky, hairs white or white and ferruginous, cylindrical or flattened.
Largest

medial blades hypostomatous, amphistomatous, or hemiamphistomatous, abaxial surface glaucous.
Catkins

from subterminal buds.

Salix sect. Chamaetia
Distribution
North America; Eurasia
Discussion

Species 4 (3 in the flora).

The branchlets in all members of sect. Chamaetia rarely elongate to produce late (neoformed) leaves. Flowering branchlets usually are not differentiated from vegetative branchlets and often have the same number of leaves.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 64.
Parent taxa Salicaceae > Salix > subg. Chamaetia
Subordinate taxa
Name authority Dumortier: Bijdr. Natuurk. Wetensch. 1: 56. (1826)
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