Salix Linnaeus 1753 (willow)

Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Salicaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Salicaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1926

See also Berry 1914, Brisseau-Mirbel 1815, Brown 1959, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1899, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and Srivastava 1991

Sister taxa: Populites, Populites, Populocaulis, Populophyllum, Populus, Pseudosalix, Salicinium, Salicinoxylon, Saliciphyllum, Saliciphyllum

Subtaxa: Salix angusta Salix baueri Salix boisiensis Salix bryani Salix californica Salix coalingensis Salix cumberlandensis Salix cuneata Salix dayana Salix deleta Salix elegans Salix elliptica Salix elongata Salix engelhardti Salix eutawensis Salix evanstoniana Salix flexuosa Salix florissanti Salix fluviatilis Salix foliosa Salix frontierensis Salix gardneri Salix groenlandica Salix hayei Salix heartensis Salix inaequalis Salix inquirenda Salix integra Salix ionensis Salix islandicus Salix kamloopsiana Salix kernensis Salix laramina Salix lavateri Salix lesquereuxii Salix libbeyi Salix macrophylla Salix mattewanensis Salix media Salix meekii Salix membranacea Salix merriami Salix minuta Salix mixta Salix nervillosa Salix newberryana Salix orbicularis Salix pacifica Salix pilosula Salix plicata Salix proteaefolia Salix pseudoargentea Salix pseudohayei Salix purpuroides Salix raeana Salix ramaleyi Salix raritanensis Salix remotidens Salix schimperi Salix siouxiana Salix sloani Salix stantoni Salix truckeana Salix tulameenensis Salix vaccinifolia Salix varians Salix viminalifolia Salix wallichiana Salix wimmeriana Salix wyomingensis

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (3: Alberta, Nunavut collections), China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Greenland (1), India (22), Japan (2), Portugal (1), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (9: Michigan, Virginia, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1)

• Pliocene of China (7), Germany (4), Japan (1), Portugal (8), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), United States (3: California, Nevada)

• Hemphillian of United States (3: California, Indiana, Tennessee)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Germany (1), Japan (3), United States (1: California)

• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)

• Miocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (6), Germany (7), Iran (1), Japan (17), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (1), Switzerland (9), United States (31: California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, Virginia, Washington)

• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: Montana)

• Oligocene of Germany (5), Puerto Rico (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Idaho, Montana)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (4: Colorado)

• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (3), United States (20: California, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of United States (2: Montana, Wyoming)

• Tertiary of Japan (2)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), United States (19: Georgia, New Mexico, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 228 collections including 366 occurrences

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