Salix Salix, Vili.

37. S. appendiculata Vili. View in CoL , Hist. Pl. Dauph. 3: 775 (1789)

(5. grandifolia Ser.). Tall shrub or small tree with short divaricate branches. Decorticated wood with few, sometimes indistinct elevated ridges. Twigs pubescent with short hairs, more or less glabrescent. Leaves variable in size and shape, obovate to oblanceolate, usually widest above the middle, more or less glabrescent above and permanently pubescent beneath; margin roughly erose-dentate to entire; veins deeply impressed above, and very prominent beneath; petiole c. 10 mm. Stipules well developed, semicordate, coarsely serrate. Catkins up to 3 x 1 cm, lax-flowered. Filaments with few long hairs near the base. Pedicel as long as or longer than the grey-pubescent ovary. C. Europe, Appennini, N. W. Balkan peninsula. Au G a Ge He It Ju.

Absent from Sudety and Carpathians; records of 37 from here are referable to 35 or its hybrids.

S. appendiculata hybridizes freely, especially with 5. caprea (to give S. x macrophylla Kerner ) but also with many subalpine species. The influence of S. appendiculata is usually shown in the rugose leaves, broadest above the middle, and the dense very prominent reticulation of the lower surface.