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Salix balsasiana
Salix balsasiana Doweld Geophytology, 55(2): 123. 30 Nov 2025
- Name
- Salix balsasiana
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Salix
- Replaced Name
- Salix balsana
- Authors (Pub.)
- Doweld A. B.
- Publication
- New names in Salix, extant and fossil allied forms (Salicaceae) [2025/11]
- Journal
- Geophytology
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 123
- Year
- 2025
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Oligocene
- Strat. comment
- Pie de Vaca Formation
- Location
- Los Ahuehuetes locality, on the southern bank of the Axamilpa River, northwest of Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla, Mexico
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, México, México
- Repository Number
- IGM-PB 1094
- Diagnosis
- Leaves elliptic, 18.0–37.0 mm long, 6.0–15.0 mm wide, a length/width ratio of 2.4–3.0 : 1; petiole 1.0–2.0 mm long; base markedly unequal and semicordate; apex rounded; margin toothed, with very small and widely spaced salicoid teeth; venation pinnate, midvein slightly curved and stout, 5–6 pairs of eucamptodromous secondary veins very slightly curved near the midvein; rounded arcs near the margin; tertiary veins in intercostal areas slightly curved toward the base of the leaf; high-order veins form a random reticulate pattern.
