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Taxon: Salix eleagnos Scop.

Genus: Salix
Family: Salicaceae.
Nomen number: 70587
Place of publication: Fl. carniol. ed. 2, 2:257. 1772
Comment: the original spelling was "eleagnos", an acceptable Greek form (fide K. Gandhi, pers. comm. on 16 Jun 2010), although this has commonly been corrected to "elaeagnos"
Name verified on: 07-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-Aug-2010
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • bitter willow   (Source: F NZeal ) – English
  • hoary willow   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • olive willow   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • rosemary willow   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: erosion control   (fide Poplars & willows, FAO Forestry Series 1979. 1:327.)
  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Turkey [n.]
  • EUROPE
    Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany [s.]; Hungary; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Ukraine [w.]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [s., e., & Corsica]; Spain

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). ["elaeagnos"].
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). ["elaeagnos"].
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Stott, K. G. 1992. Willows in the service of man. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 98B:176. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. ["elaeagnos"].
  • Poplars and willows. F. A. O. Forest. Ser. 10:1–327. ["elaeagnos"].
More:

Check other web resources for Salix eleagnos Scop.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Salix eleagnos cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?70587 (21 May 2013)

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