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Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 1017. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: February-March.
Type: Type: Described from the Orient, Tournefort, Herb. Linn. 1158/21 (LINN).
Distribution: Distribution: Native country uncertain, probably China, widely planted.
Comment/Acknowledgements: The branches are cut as fodder for cattle. The wood of the weeping willow is suitable for making cricket bats. (Parker, l.c.).
Map Location: B-6 Chitral, Drosh, 4500 ft, flowers March 1908, S.M. Toppin 271 (K); B-7 Abbottabad, Lower Malikpura, tree, 35 ft, by fresh water stream, 15.3.1961, A.R. Beg R/501 (PPFI); Abbottabad, 2.3.1953, Ishtiaq Hussain (PPFI); Abbottabad, by a stream let, tree branches drooping, 16.3.1961, A.R. Beg (RAW); B-8 Kashmir valley, 5200 ft, tree 40 ft, planted along water channel; flowering shoots were collected on 14.4 83, the leaves on 2.6.83 from the same plantation. It is very common in the valley here, 1983, J.D.A. Stainton 8630 (BM); C-6 Peshawar, 5.3.1968, S.A. Farooqi & Students (KUH); C-7 Rawalpindi, Hasan Abdal, July (18) 72, J.E.T. Aitchison 1114 (K); Rawalpindi, college compound, M. Charles (RAW); Ayub Park, Rawalpindi, along the bank of lake, cultivated, branches drooping, 5.3.1967, Saida Qaiser (KUH); Rawalpindi, National Park, ± 1700 ft, 11.4.1976, M.A.Siddiqi (ISL); Islamabad, Abbpara, 4.3.1977, M. Arif, M. Akram, Maqsood & Sarfaraz 2 (ISL); Attock, Burhan, ± 1250 ft, tree, shoots drooping, flowers in catkins, 14.3.1978, Shahzad & Nisar 2153 (ISL); D-4 Quetta, 5600 ft, introduced, 15.4.1888, J.H. Lace 3563 (E). D-8 40 miles from Lahore, on way to Changa Manga, 3.3.1978, M. Qaiser & Shaharyar 6942 (KUH).

 

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Tree up to 40 m tall. Branches long, drooping; bark deeply fishered, grayish. Leaf stipulate, stipules obliquely lanceolate or ovate, toothed or subulate. Petiole 3-5(10) mm long. Lamina 8-16 x 0.8-1.5 cm., narrowly elliptic to linear lanceolate, serrulate, acuminate, glabrous or with sparse adpressed hairs. Catkins appearing before or with leaves, borne or short leafy stalks. Male catkin up to 2.5 cm long. Bracts ovate lanceolate, slightly hairy below. Stamens 2, free, hairy at the base. Female catkin up to 5 cm long. Flowers with one oblong gland, longer than stipe. Ovary subsessile, ovoid, glabrous, style short, stigma 2-4 parted. Capsule 3-4 mm.
 
 
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