Flora of North America species comparison

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Salix sect. Glaucae
Habit Plants 0.2–6 m, not clonal or clonal by layering.
Staminate flowers

filaments glabrous or hairy.
Pistillate flowers

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

ovary pubescent or moderately to very densely villous, tomentose, woolly, or silky, hairs white, cylindrical or flattened.
Largest

medial blades hypostomatous, hemiamphistomatous, or amphistomatous, abaxial surface glaucous (sometimes obscured by hairs).
Catkins

from lateral buds.

Salix sect. Glaucae
Distribution
North America; Eurasia
Discussion

Species 8 (3 in the flora).

Section Glaucae is placed here in subg. Chamaetia but it clusters with members of subg. Vetrix (G. W. Argus 1997) and could equally well be included there. It includes high polyploids, which probably incorporate genes from members of other sections and subgenera.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 86.
Parent taxa Salicaceae > Salix > subg. Chamaetia
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms family S. tribe Glaucae
Name authority (Fries) Andersson: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 273. (1868)
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