| Salix sphenophylla A. Skvortz. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix cuneatifolia Flod., Salix arctica var. nervosa, Salix cuneata Turcz. | ||
| Description | Prostrate shrub; twigs glabrous; leaves long-petiolated, obovate, blunt or short- pointed, entire or somewhat serrated in the margin, dull green above, glaucous beneath, slightly pubescent when young, glabrous in age, with prominent nerves, especially beneath; catkins erect, 3-4 cm long, on pubescent, leafy peduncles; bracts elliptical, brown, with long hairs; capsules ovate-conical, brown or purplish, glabrous, with style 0.6—-1.5 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Stony places in mountains. Described from eastern shore of Lake Baikal. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Closely related to S. arctica subsp. torulosa, but differing in having completely glabrous capsules. |
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.