Salicaceae: A large pan-tropical, temperate and boreal woody family of considerable ecological importance
The traditional definition of the family only included the temperate genera Salix and Populus. Molecular analysis has shown these are nested within what was once called Flacourtiaceae. The family is now expanded to cover the majority of the “old” Flacourtiaceae. The sister family is generally considered to be the sister family is generally considered to be the Lacistemataceae (2 genera: Lacistema, Lozania). The genus Salix (willows) is an important component of the Arctic and boreal biomes.
Contributors
- Mac Alford (University of Southern Mississippi)
- Wendy Applequist (Missouri Botanical Garden)
- Quentin Cronk (UBC, Vancouver)
- Li He (Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden)
- Ronaldo Marquete (Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro)
- Astrid de Mestier (Botanischer Garten, Berlin)
- Tommi Nyman (NIBIO, Norway)
- Radim J. Vašut (Palacky University in Olomouc)
- Natascha Wagner (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
- Campbell O. Webb (Museum of the North, Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks)
Key Literature
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Acknowledgements:
We thank the staff of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) for advice and support in setting up this TEN.
