Salix disperma

Salix disperma Roxb. ex D. Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. 58 1825 (syn: Salix funebris H. Lév.; Salix grisea Wall.; Salix julacea Anderss.; Salix julacea var. grisea (Anderss.) Flod.; Salix julacea var. sericea (Anderss.) Flod.; Salix mairei H. Lév.; Salix pachyclada H. Lév. & Vaniot; Salix pseudogrisea Steud.; Salix wallichiana Andersson; Salix wallichiana var. grisea Andersson; Salix wallichiana f. longistyla C. F. Fang; Salix wallichiana var. pachyclada (H. Lév. & Vaniot) C. Wang & C. F. Fang; Salix wallichiana var. sericea Andersson) as per Catalogue of Life;

China (Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, Nei Mongol, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Tibet, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Afghanistan (Kabul, Kunar / Nuristan, Nangarhar), Pakistan (Kurram, Chitral, Astor, Swat), Jammu & Kashmir (Hazara, Kashmir), Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin) as per Catalogue of Life;

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Salicaceae (including Flacourtiaceae) Fortnight: Salix wallichiana from Mussourie, Uttarakhand, SC24: 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2).
Salix wallichiana Andersson
Photographs are taken from Camel’s Back road, Mussourie, 6500 ft.

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Thanks … for beautiful pics…

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Salicaceae (including Flacourtiaceae) Fortnight: Salix wallichiana from Dzong, Arunachal Pradesh, SC21 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4).

Salix wallichiana Andersson

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Salicaceae (including Flacourtiaceae) Fortnight: Salix wallichiana from Kashmir-GSFEB-26 : 8 posts by 3 authors. Attachments(6).
Salix wallichiana Anders.

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Both the dried and living specimens are good. You guess right that the fruiting catkins belong to S. wallichiana

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Thanks a lot … I am now happy that my Salicaceae collections are now better catalogued after your scrutiny.

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I think The Plant List has wrongly stated Salix wallichiana Andersson is a synonym of Salix disperma Roxb. ex D.Don.

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Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal also states so- where is the confusion ? 

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… can resolve this issue. Even Version 1 of The Plant List considered S. wallichiana Andrs. as accepted name and S. disperma Roxb.ex D. Don as unresolved. The latest Version 1.1 of 2012 considers former as synonym of latter. Incidentally Enumeration of Flowering Plants of Nepal in 1982 had resolved S. disperma as accepted name and S. wallichiana as synonym.

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I found after detail study of the type specimen and protologue that it might be happened that D. Don (1925) described the male and female plant of Salix disperma based on two different (specimens) species. This has created confusion in determining the species since there is no Salix species is available from Nepal with the characteristics of male and female flower as described by D. Don (1825). So I could not consider Salix disperma as a good species which was described from an admixture of collection of two different species 

Thanks, …, for clearing this taxonomic confusion.

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May be Salix sp

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Yes. it must be Salix wallichiana. Flowers appear before the leaves.
The leaves taste bitter. Blood purifier & antipyretic. A good fodder for sheep & goats.

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Srinagar, April 2023 :: Salix-1 for ID :: ARK2023-004: 2 high res. images.

Salix denticulata Andersson ??

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Any complete habit image?

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Unfortunately no, … This was right on the banks of a small stream, if it helps.

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I hope Salix disperma (syn: S. wallichiana)

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Yes, appears close to images at
https://efloraofindia.com/2014/02/14/salix-wallichiana/

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Srinagar, April 2023 :: Salix-1 for ID :: ARK2023-004: 2 high res. images.
This Salix was captured at Tangmarg, J&K in April 2023.
Requested to please ID.

Salix denticulata Andersson ??

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Any complete habit image?

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Unfortunately no, … This was right on the banks of a small stream, if it helps.

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I hope Salix disperma (syn: S. wallichiana)

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Yes, appears close to images at
https://efloraofindia.com/2014/02/14/salix-wallichiana/

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References:

Catalogue of Life  POWO  GRIN  Flora of China  Flora of Pakistan  Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal  Flowers of India  India Biodiversity Portal  PFAF