| Salix phlebophylla Anderss. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix palaeoneura Rydb. | ||
| Description | Dwarf shrub forming mats; leaves somewhat pubescent beneath when young, glabrous in age, obovate-lanceolate, acute, shiny, with entire margin and veins prominent on both sides, persistent for at least 3 years, the old, skeletonized leaves covering the basal parts; catkins short, upright; bracts rounded to obovate, black, with very long, white hairs; capsules pubescent, sometimes glabrescent in age, with short styles; stamens 2, filaments glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Arctic and alpine lichen and moss tundra, windswept ridges to 1,750 meters in McKinley Park. Described from northwest North America, Cape Mulgrave, Arctic coast. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybridizes with S. rotundifolia (no. 7). |
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.