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Dioecious trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, stipulate. Flowers appearing before or after the leaves, in usually erect catkins, catkin scales entire; each flower with 1-2 fleshy glands; stamens 2-many. Derivation of name: the classical name for willows Worldwide: About 500 species, mainly north temperate but some tropical and south temperate. Zambia: 1 taxon. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| mucronata Thunb. subsp. subserrata (Willd.) R. H. Archer & Jordaan | B,N,W,C,E,S | C | Description, Image |
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