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Salix x sepulcralis var. chrysocoma (Dode) Meikle
Family Salicaceae
Common name: Golden Weeping Willow

Salix x sepulcralis var. chrysocoma (Dode) Meikle APNI*

Description: Weeping tree to 18 m high, trunks 1-several; crown wider than high; bark grey- brown to dark brown, moderately fissured; outer branches, twigs and shoots weeping, only shoots hanging vertically; twigs golden to greenish-yellow, not fragile; buds brown.

Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 7–18.5 cm long, 8–29 mm wide, dark green above, glaucous or glaucescent below, margins glandular-serrate; petioles usually with 1-several dark brown sessile glands; stipules if present also with scattered sessile glands.

Distribution of sexes ± equal, plants commonly with male and female flowers, flowers 1.5–5 cm long. Stamens 2.

Capsules 4–6 mm long.


Herbarium
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Distribution and occurrence: naturalised on coast, tablelands and western slopes.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *S.A.
AVH map***

Treated as Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma (Dode) Meikle.

Text by S.W.L. Jacobs & L. Murray (2000)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (2000)


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