1. These images represent mature female catkins and infructescences of* Salix karelinii *Turcz. which was described as *S. hastata *by many taxonomists like Hooker, Brandis, Collett, Parker etc.
The diagnostic characters are: Shrub; branches dark brown to black, glabrous; leaf blades ovate-lanceolate or oblong-obovate, acute or shortly acuminate, denticulate or sometimes glandular serrate, green above and pale beneath; glabrous; midrib prominent on both the surfaces; female catkins slender, cylindrical, erect to sub-erect, subtended with 2-3 basal leaves; bracts of female flowers reddish-brown. Thanks, Sukla ------------------------------------------------ Sukla Chanda, PhD Science & Education, The Field Museum, Chicago IL. On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:38 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > Date: 2 February 2014 18:07 > Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:131463] VoF Week: 19092012 BS 8 shrub (Salix > sp??) for id from Valley > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > Cc: Balkar Singh <[email protected]>, Gurcharan Singh < > [email protected]>, Manoj Chandran <[email protected]>, sukla chanda < > [email protected]> > > > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > "Yes *Salix* > *Let* us wait for species ID > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh" > > "Probably Salix elegans" from Manoj Chandran ji. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Balkar Singh <[email protected]> > Date: 19 September 2012 17:26 > Subject: [efloraofindia:131463] VoF Week: 19092012 BS 8 shrub (Salix sp??) > for id from Valley > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > > > Dear All > Pls id this shrub may be Salix sp > Shot from the to valley > Thanks > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 > > -- > > > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world): > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2200 members & > 1,78,400 messages on 31/12/13) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world): > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2200 members & > 1,78,400 messages on 31/12/13) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
