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|accepted_name=Salix melanopsis
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=N. Amer. Sylv.
|place=1: 78, plate 21. 1842
|year=1842
}}
|common_names=Dusky willow
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix bolanderiana
|authority=Rowlee
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix exigua var. gracilipes
|authority=(C. R. Ball) Cronquist
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix exigua subsp. melanopsis
|authority=(Nuttall) Cronquist
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix exigua var. tenerrima
|authority=(L. F. Henderson) C. K. Schneider
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix fluviatilis var. tenerrima
|authority=(L. F. Henderson) Howell
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix longifolia var. tenerrima
|authority=L. F. Henderson
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix melanopsis var. bolanderiana
|authority=(Rowlee) C. K. Schneider
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix melanopsis var. gracilipes
|authority=C. R. Ball
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix melanopsis var. kronkheitii
|authority=Kelso
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix melanopsis var. tenerrima
|authority=(L. F. Henderson) C. R. Ball
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix parksiana
|authority=
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix sessilifolia var. vancouverensis
|authority=Brayshaw
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix tenerrima
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Salicaceae;Salix;Salix subg. Longifoliae;Salix melanopsis
|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. Longifoliae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Salix melanopsis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 52, 56, 59, 60, 160
|treatment_page=page 58
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 0.8–4 m. <b>Stems</b>: branches gray-brown or red-brown, glabrous or hairy; branchlets gray-brown to dark red-brown, glabrous, puberulent, densely long-silky, or villous to glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules absent, rudimentary, or foliaceous on early ones, foliaceous on late ones (apex acuminate); petiole 1.5–8 mm, glabrous adaxially; largest medial blade lorate, narrowly oblong, narrowly elliptic, narrowly oblanceolate, or linear, 30–133 × 5–20 mm, 3.4–8–15 times as long as wide, base cuneate or convex, margins flat, spinulose-serrulate or entire, apex acute, acuminate, or convex, abaxial surface glaucous or not, pilose, villous, or long-silky to glabrescent, hairs appressed or spreading, wavy, adaxial slightly glossy, villous to glabrescent; proximal blade margins entire or serrulate; juvenile blade reddish or yellowish green, densely villous abaxially. <b>Catkins</b>: staminate 18–48 × 5–13 mm, flowering branchlet 3–15 mm; pistillate moderately densely flowered, slender or stout, 22–58 × 4–9 mm, flowering branchlet 4–12 mm; floral bract (sometimes brown), 1.3–2.8 mm, apex rounded (sometimes truncate), entire or erose, abaxially hairy mainly proximally, hairs wavy. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: abaxial nectary 0.3–0.9 mm, adaxial nectary narrowly oblong, oblong, or flask-shaped, 0.4–1.2 mm, nectaries distinct; filaments densely hairy on proximal 1/2; anthers 0.55–0.7–0.9 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary ovate, oblong, or flask-shaped, 0.4–1.1 mm, longer than stipe, nectaries distinct or connate and cup-shaped; stipe 0–0.7 mm; ovary obclavate or pyriform, glabrous, beak abruptly tapering to styles; ovules 13–22 per ovary; styles 0–0.14–0.5 mm; stigmas slenderly cylindrical or 2 plump lobes, 0.2–0.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 4–5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early May-mid Jul.
|habitat=Riparian, floodplains, stream banks, subalpine meadows, coarse-textured substrates, silt
|elevation=600-3100 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Salix</i> fluviatilis Nuttall, long used for a Columbia River endemic (see 22. <i>S. columbiana</i>), is a rejected name.</p><!--
--><p>Hybrids:</p><!--
--><p><i>Salix melanopsis</i> forms natural hybrids with <i>S. exigua </i>var.<i> exigua</i>, <i>S. sessilifolia</i>, and <i>S. sitchensis</i> (R. D. Dorn 1998).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Salix melanopsis
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Salix bolanderiana;Salix exigua var. gracilipes;Salix exigua subsp. melanopsis;Salix exigua var. tenerrima;Salix fluviatilis var. tenerrima;Salix longifolia var. tenerrima;Salix melanopsis var. bolanderiana;Salix melanopsis var. gracilipes;Salix melanopsis var. kronkheitii;Salix melanopsis var. tenerrima;Salix parksiana;Salix sessilifolia var. vancouverensis;Salix tenerrima
|basionyms=
|family=Salicaceae
|phenology=Flowering early May-mid Jul.
|habitat=Riparian, floodplains, stream banks, subalpine meadows, coarse-textured substrates, silt
|elevation=600-3100 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=N. Amer. Sylv.
|publication year=1842
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_51.xml
|genus=Salix
|subgenus=Salix subg. Longifoliae
|species=Salix melanopsis
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