Salix boseensis
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| Salix boseensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Salicaceae |
| Genus: | Salix |
| Species: | S. boseensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Salix boseensis N.Chao | |
Salix boseensis is a shrub from the genus of willow (Salix) with initially brownish, frosted and bare branches and 6 to 9 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix boseensis forms shrubs with brownish, 4 to 5 millimeters in diameter, bare and frosted young twigs. The leaves have a stem up to 9 millimeters long. The remaining stipules are greenish, more or less elongated or ovate, 3 to 4 millimeters long, glabrous and have an irregularly serrated or toothed leaf margin. The leaf blade is oblong or obovate-oblong, 6 to 9 centimeters long and 2 to 3.5 millimeters wide, with a rounded or blunt tip, a wedge-shaped to more or less rounded base and a serrated, rarely almost entire, leaf margin. The upper side of the leaf is green, the underside greenish, both sides are bare. The approximately 12 lateral Pairs of nerves are protruding.[1]
Male inflorescences are unknown. The female catkins grow on reddish-brown, bare, 4 to 5 centimeters long branches that can have leaves. They stand upright, are 7 to 10 millimeters long and have a stem about 1 centimeter long. The inflorescence axis is finely haired gray. The bracts are brown, irregularly ovate or oblong, 2 to 3 millimeters long, with a rounded or blunt tip, initially gray and shaggy hairy and later balding upper surface and bald underside. The female flowers have an adaxial nectar gland, an egg-shaped ovary, an undistinguished style and two small, flat, bald scars. Conical, egg-shaped capsules about 5 millimeters long are formed as fruits on 4 millimeter long stems. The fruits ripen in December.[1]
Range
The natural range is in the Chinese Autonomous Region of Guangxi.[1]