Herbarium JCB

Salix tetrasperma

Family : SALICACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Salicaceae
Species : Salix tetrasperma
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Salix tetrasperma Roxb.
Common name : Indian Willow
Vernacular name : Jala vetasa (San.); Neravanji (Kan.)
Collection Nos : HFP 1192, KFP 10270, CJS 15238
Key identification features : A medium-sized deciduous tree that grows along water bodies. Bark steel grey, furrowed and scaly. Leaves are simple and shiny with a characteristic margin, minutely irregularly toothed. Flowers appear simultaneously with new flush of leaves, are small and unisexual in separate catkin inflorescences. Male flowers are yellowish, fragrant. Female flowers are greenish. Fruit is dry and dehiscent.
Habit : Tree
Native : Southeast Asia, India
Comments : Woos used as a good gun-powder-charcoal, used for making of Cricket bats; Soft twigs are used in weaving of baskets
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Belgaum, Chikamagalur, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Neginhal S.G, Forest Trees of South India, 2004.