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Salix sp., Willow(s)

genus Salix Linnaeus (1753)

• Modern species: Late Cretaceous - Present (99.7 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, Angiosperms, order Malpighiales, family Salicaceae

• Distribution
• Eocene: Hokkaido, Ehime
• Oligocene: Kagawa
• Miocene: Miyagi, Gunma, Ibaraki, Saitama, Shizuoka, Gifu, Hiroshima, Kagawa, Saga
• Miocene-Pliocene: Oita
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Niigata, Mie, Hyogo, Okayama
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Niigata, Mie
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, Nagano, Tochigi, Saitama, Tokyo, Kanagawa
• Holocene: Yamagata, Aichi
• Investigation in progress: Mie, Oita

• Subtaxa
• S. bakko
• S. integra
• S. jessoensis, Yeddo willow
• S. miyabeana subsp. gilgiana
• S. rorida
• S. triandra, Almond willow
• S. udensis, Japanese fantail willow