Salix cheilophila
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| Salix cheilophila | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Salicaceae |
| Genus: | Salix |
| Species: | S. cheilophila |
| Binomial name | |
| Salix cheilophila | |
Salix cheilophila is a shrub or small tree from the genus of willow (Salix) with initially tomentose hairy and later balding branches. The leaf blades have lengths of 2.5 to sometimes 6 centimeters. The natural range of the species is in China.
Salix cheilophila is a shrub or small tree up to 5 meters high with gray-black or red-black branches that are initially tomentose and then bald. The buds are hairy shaggy. The leaves have a very short stem. The leaf blade is linear, linear-wrong-lanceolate or wrongly lanceolate, 2.5 to 3.5 seldom up to 6 centimeters long and 3 to 5 seldom 10 millimeters wide, pointed or pointed, with a narrowed or seldom blunt base and serrated glandularly towards the tip of the leaf Leaf margin. The top is green and finely haired, the underside white-gray and densely hairy silky.[1]
The male inflorescences are 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters in diameter, almost sitting catkins with two to three leaves at the base. The bracts are obovate-oblong, with a blunt or edged tip and a downy, hairy base. Male flowers have a narrow, elongated, rarely bilobed nectar gland. The two stamens are completely grown together and bare, the anthers are yellow and four-fold. The female catkins are up to 2.5 inches long. The bracts are more or less round. Female flowers have a narrow, elongated nectar gland. The ovaryis ovate to ovoid-cylindrical, densely hairy or glabrous, sessile or with short stalk. The scar is short. Capsules about 3 millimeters long are formed as fruits. Salix cheilophila flowers from April to May when the leaves shoot, the fruits ripen in May.[1]