| Salix fuscescens Anderss. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix arbutifolia, Salix rhamnifolia | ||
| Description | Trailing dwarf shrub with glabrous twigs; leaves obovate to elliptical, usually obtuse, or very short-pointed, dark green above, with a few glandular-tipped teeth at base; catkins broad and short on leafy peduncles, with sparsely distributed cap- sules; scales obovate or obovate-lanceolate, brown; capsules long-attenuated, abruptly truncate in apex, with very short and thick styles and stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, muskeg, tundra bogs, chiefly inland. Described from Lake Baikal, eastern Siberia, Kamchatka. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybridizes with S. ovalifolia. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.