View source for Salix ligulifolia

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|accepted_name=Salix ligulifolia
|accepted_authority=(C. R. Ball) C. R. Ball ex C. K. Schneider
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Arnold Arbor.
|place=2: 188. 1922
|year=1922
}}
|common_names=Strap-leaf willow
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Salix lutea var. ligulifolia
|authority=C. R. Ball
|publication_title=Bot. Gaz.
|publication_place=71: 428. 1921
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix eriocephala var. ligulifolia
|authority=(C. R. Ball) Dorn
}}
|hierarchy=Salicaceae;Salix;Salix subg. Vetrix;Salix sect. Cordatae;Salix ligulifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Salicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Salix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Salix subg. Vetrix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Salix sect. Cordatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Salix ligulifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 104, 123, 153, 154
|treatment_page=page 122
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 1–8 m. <b>Stems</b>: branches yellow-brown, gray-brown, or red-brown, not glaucous, glabrous or villous; branchlets yellow-green or yellow-brown, glabrous, sparsely to densely villous, or velvety, (inner membranaceous bud-scale layer free, not separating from outer layer). <b>Leaves</b>: stipules foliaceous, apex rounded, convex, acute or acuminate; petiole convex to flat, or shallowly grooved adaxially, 3–18 mm, glabrous, pilose, or velvety to glabrescent adaxially; largest medial blade lorate, narrowly oblong, or narrowly elliptic, 60–133 × 12–30 mm, 2.9–6.4 times as long as wide, base rounded, convex, or subcordate, margins flat, usually serrulate or serrate, rarely (apparently) entire, apex acuminate to acute, abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, sparsely short-silky or pubescent, hairs straight or wavy, adaxial dull, glabrous, sparsely short-silky, or midrib pubescent; proximal blade margins entire, serrulate, or crenulate; juvenile blade reddish or yellowish green, glabrous or sparsely to moderately densely pilose or puberulent abaxially, hairs white. <b>Catkins</b> flowering as or just before leaves emerge; staminate stout, 20.5–34 × 8–11 mm, flowering branchlet 0–3 mm; pistillate moderately densely flowered, slender to subglobose, 15.5–49 × 8–18 mm, flowering branchlet 1–6 mm; floral bract brown or bicolor, 0.8–1.6 mm, apex acute or rounded, abaxially hairy throughout or proximally (hairs usually arising from rachis), hairs wavy or curly. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary narrowly oblong, oblong, flask-shaped, or triangular, 0.3–0.8 mm; filaments distinct or connate less than 1/2 their lengths (or appearing as a single stamen), glabrous or hairy basally; anthers purple or red turning yellow, (ellipsoid or globose), 0.5–0.8 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary oblong, narrowly oblong, or flask-shaped, 0.3–0.9 mm, shorter than stipe; stipe 0.9–2.5 mm; ovary pyriform, glabrous, beak sometimes slightly bulged below styles; ovules 12–21 per ovary; styles 0.2–0.6 mm; stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with rounded tip, or slenderly cylindrical, 0.16–0.25–0.4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 4–6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 38.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Mar-mid Jun(-late Jul).
|habitat=Banks and floodplains, cienegas, sandy-clay or gravelly substrates
|elevation=0-3100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Salix ligulifolia</i> sometimes has leaf teeth that are so short that it is referred to as “entire-leaved.” That condition is uncommon and, even when some leaves appear to be entire, others with fine serrulations can be found on the same plant.</p><!--
--><p>Hybrids:</p><!--
--><p><i>Salix ligulifolia</i> forms natural hybrids with <i>S. geyeriana</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Salix ligulifolia
|author=
|authority=(C. R. Ball) C. R. Ball ex C. K. Schneider
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Salix eriocephala var. ligulifolia
|basionyms=Salix lutea var. ligulifolia
|family=Salicaceae
|phenology=Flowering late Mar-mid Jun(-late Jul).
|habitat=Banks and floodplains, cienegas, sandy-clay or gravelly substrates
|elevation=0-3100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Arnold Arbor.
|publication year=1922
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_127.xml
|genus=Salix
|subgenus=Salix subg. Vetrix
|section=Salix sect. Cordatae
|species=Salix ligulifolia
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