Salicaceae

Salix pentandra

Salix L. Salix pentandra L. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: çalı-ağaç Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 0 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 0 Habitat: göl ve dere kenarları Minimum yükseklik: 800 Maksimum yükseklik: 1300 Endemik: - Element: Avrupa-Sibirya Türkiye dağılımı: KB., B. ve D. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Avrupa'dan Sibirya'ya Bulunduğu kareler :A3 C6

S. pentandra L., Sp. PL 1016 (1753).   Shrub or tree to 15 m. Twigs glabrous, vinous-red to dark brown, not fragile; buds narrowly ovoid, acute, not adpressed to twigs. Decorticated wood smooth. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, 2-4 x as long as wide, 5-9 x 2.2-3.5 cm, acuminate, glandular-serrate, dark green above, paler green below, glabrous; petiole 6-12(-15) mm, with 1-3 pairs of subapical glands. Stipules small, ± ovate, soon caducous. Catkins appearing after leaves, cylin-drical; male 2-6 x 1-1.5 cm, dense, stamens usually 5, occasionally to 9, anthers 0.5-0.6(-0.7) mm; filaments pilose near base; female 2-5 x 0.8-1 cm, slender; flowers with 2 nectaries, ovary narrowly ovoid; capsule 5-6 mm, fruiting pedi-cels to 2 x nectaries. Margins of lakes and rivers, 800-1300 m.   Described from Europe (Hb. Linn. 1158/3!).   N.W., W. & E. Anatolia. A3 Bolu: Abant G., 1300 m, Wagenitz & Beug 77! B2 Manisa: Sardes (Sart), 1842, Boiss. C6 Maraş: Maraş to Dereköy, 800 m, Kayacik (ISTO 604)!   Europe to W. Siberia. Euro-Sib. element. Closely related to the Caucasian and E. Anatolian S. pentandroides; for further discussion see A.K. Skvortsov (1960) in Trudy Mosk. Obshch. Isp. Prirod. 3:247-262.