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四子柳Salix tetrasperma Roxb.

四子柳Salix tetrasperma Roxb.

别名:纤穗柳;皂柳;四籽柳;

科名:杨柳科 Salicaceae

属名:柳属 Salix

《中国植物志》第20(2)卷095页
  1.四子柳(中国高等植勿图鉴)图版25:1-4
  Salix tetrasperma Roxb. Pl. Corom. 1: 66. t. 97. 1795;Anderss. in Jour. Linn. Soc. 4: 41. 1860;id. in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 6: 1 (Monogr. Salic.). 1867: id. in DC. Prodr. 16 (2): 192. 1868;Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 5: 626. 1888;Schneid. in Sarg. Pl. Wils. 3: 94. 1916;Hao in Fedde, Rep. Beih. 93: 43. 1936;中国高等植物图鉴, 1: 359. 图717. 1972;西藏植物名录, 49. 1980. ——S. disperma Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 58. 1825.——S. pyrina auct. non Wall. apud Anderss.: Hao in 1. c. 44. 1936.
  乔木,高可达10米余。老枝暗褐色,无毛,当年生枝有稀疏短柔毛或近无毛。芽狭卵形,先端急尖,无毛。叶卵状至线状披针形,长6-16厘米,宽2.5-4.5厘米,先端长渐尖,基部楔形或近圆形,上面绿色,无毛,有光泽,下面苍白色,有白粉,无毛,边缘有细锯齿;叶柄长1-1.5厘米,无毛;托叶偏卵形,有腺锯齿。花叶后开放;雄花序长约10厘米,粗约6毫米,花序梗长1.5-2厘米,着生有2-3个两面生有稀疏伏柔毛小叶,轴密生短柔毛,雄蕊通常8,稀6或9;花丝中部以下有柔毛;花药卵球形,黄色;苞片椭圆形,先端尖或钝圆,两面密生灰白色柔毛;腺体2,常结合成多裂的假花盘;雌花序与雄花序等长或稍短;花序梗长约1厘米,着生有2-3小叶,轴密生灰白色短柔毛;子房具长柄(柄与子房等长或稍短)卵形,花柱短,先端2裂,柱头卵形,2圆裂;苞片同雄花;约与子房柄等长,仅有腹腺,约为柄长的1/5,稍抱柄。蒴果较大,长可达1厘米,无毛。花期9-10月或1-4月,果期11-12月或5月。
  产西藏南部、云南南部和西南部及广东南部。生于海拔1800米以下的低山地区河流边。分布于印度、尼泊尔、中南半岛各国和印度尼西亚。
  本种为热带地区常见的一种柳树。叶形、大小、被毛疏密、雄蕊数目、子房形状及花柱长、短等特征,都有变化。Andersson和Roxburgh等人曾依据这些变化定了6个变种。据我们研究,这些变种的区别不明显,需进一步采集调查研究。 另外,据文献记载,S. pyrina Wall. apud Anderss.与该种的主要区别为幼枝、叶和叶柄被毛较多,叶全缘或近于全缘,叶下面带灰色而不为苍白色。在我们观察到采自 云南南部的许多标本中,未见有如上性状者,故郝景盛先生认为我国云南有分布,恐系鉴 定之误。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 4 (1999)
Salix tetrasperma  Roxburgh
四子柳   si zi liu
Pleiarina tetrasperma (Roxburgh) N. Chao & G. T. Gong; Salix disperma Roxburgh ex D. Don.
Trees to 10 m tall. Branches dull brown, glabrous; juvenile branchlets subglabrous. Buds narrowly ovoid, glabrous, apex acute. Stipules obliquely ovate, glandular, serrate; petiole 1-1.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade ovate to linear-lanceolate, 6-16 × 2.5-4.5 cm, abaxially pale, pruinose, adaxially green, glabrous, shiny, base cuneate or suborbicular, margin serrate, apex acuminate. Flowering serotinous. Male catkin ca. 10 cm × 6 mm; peduncle 1.5-2 cm, with 2 or 3 pilose leaflets; rachis densely pubescent or woolly; bracts elliptic, densely grayish white downy, apex acute or obtuse. Male flower: glands usually connected, much lobed, discoid; stamens usually 8, rarely 6 or 9; filaments downy proximally; anthers yellow, ovoid. Female catkin nearly as long as male catkin; bracts like those of male catkin, ca. as long as stipes. Female flower: adaxial gland slightly clasping stipe; ovary ovoid, ca. as long as or slightly shorter than stipe; style short, 2-cleft; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, glabrous. Fl. Sep-Oct or Jan-Apr, fr. Nov-Dec or May. 2n = 76.
Below 1800 m. S Guangdong, Hainan, S Xizang, S and SW Yunnan [India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam]

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