Flora of North America species comparison

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Salix sect. Nigricantes
Habit Shrubs or trees, 1–5 m. Buds caprea-type.
Leaves

stipules on late ones foliaceous;

largest medial blade 1–3 times as long as wide, adaxial surface not glaucous.
Staminate flowers

filaments glabrous or hairy basally.
Pistillate flowers

adaxial nectary shorter than stipe;

stipe 0.8–3.5 mm;

ovary glabrous or pubescent;

stigmas broadly cylindrical, 0.3–0.6 mm.

Salix sect. Nigricantes
Distribution
Eurasia [Introduced, Ont.]
Discussion

Species 3 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 125.
Parent taxa Salicaceae > Salix > subg. Vetrix
Subordinate taxa
Name authority A. Kerner: Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 10: 235. (1860)
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