Home Flora of Pakistan
Home
Name Search
Families
Genera
Species
District Map
Grid Map
Inventory Project
Salix aegyptiaca L. Search in The Plant ListSearch in IPNISearch in Australian Plant Name IndexSearch in NYBG Virtual HerbariumSearch in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleSearch in Type Specimen Register of the U.S. National HerbariumSearch in Virtual Herbaria AustriaSearch in JSTOR Plant ScienceSearch in SEINetSearch in African Plants Database at Geneva Botanical GardenAfrican Plants, Senckenberg Photo GallerySearch in Flora do Brasil 2020Search in Reflora - Virtual HerbariumSearch in Living Collections Decrease font Increase font Restore font
 

Published In: Centuria I. Plantarum ... 1: 33. 1755. (Cent. Pl. I) 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)
Synonym Text: S. caprae auct. non L.: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 5: 629. 1888; Parker, For. Fl. Punj. ed. 3: 507. 1956.
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: March.
Type: Type: "In Aegypto", Hasselquist, Herb. Linn. 1158/91 (LINN). vide A.K. Skvortsov & J.R. Edmondson in P.H. Davis, Fl. Turk. 7: 710. 1982.
Distribution: Distribution: Turkey-South-Eastern Anatolia (Provinces Bitlis, Hakkiari), South-Eastern Transcaucasia (Zangezur, Karabagh), Northern Persia, widely cultivated in Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc. A. K. Skvortsov, l.c.
Map Location: D-4 Pishin, 5200 ft, 1.3.1889 & June 1889, J.H. Lace 3445 (E); D-8 Lahore, Cult., March 1846, T. Thomson 1487 (K).

 

Export To PDF Export To Word
Tall shrub or tree 2.5-10 m, persistently grey tomentose, wood striate. Flowering buds ovoid, 6-9 x 4-6 mm, obtuse to shortly acuminate. Leaf stipulate, stipule reniform or semicordate, 1.5-6 mm, caducous; petiole 4-12 mm; lamina obovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 5-15 x 3-6 cm, about half as broad as long, acute to obtuse, margin sinuate-erose and glandular dentate, gray adpressed-hairy beneath, glabrescent to puberulous above. Catkins numerous, closely spaced, densely villous, precocious; staminate subsessile, ovoid to subcylindrical with long white hairs. Bract 2-3.5 mm, 1.5-3 mm long hairs over-topping the bracts. Stamens 2, distinct, glabrous, filaments 7-10 mm long, anther 0.7-1 mm long. Female catkin 4-6 x 1-1.5 cm, borne on a long leafy-bracted stalk, bract as in the male catkin, gland one, entire, rarely 2 lobed, ovary tomentose. Capsule 7-9 mm, pedicel c. 2 mm in fruit.
 
 
© 2024 Missouri Botanical Garden - 4344 Shaw Boulevard - Saint Louis, Missouri 63110