SALICACEAE
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.302862 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1213417E-FFAB-FFA9-CBAC-FDA64EDCCD6C |
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Plazi |
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SALICACEAE |
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XXXI. SALICACEAE View in CoL 1
Dioecious. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, very rarely subopposite; stipules present. Flowers subtended by bracts and arranged in catkins; perianth absent; glands present, sometimes nectariferous. Male flowers with 2-many stamens; filaments filiform, free or more or less united. Female flowers with one unilocular carpel with 2-4 parietal placentae; ovules numerous, ascending, anatropous. Fruit a capsule dehiscing by 2-4 valves. Seeds numerous, very small, each with a tuft of long hairs.
Buds with 1 outer scale; bracts entire 1. Salix Buds with several outer scales; bracts dentate or ciliate-fimbriate
2. Populus
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