SALICACEAE Mirbel
Family comprised of 54 genera and over 1,270 species spread across Eurasia and North Africa, America and Indonesia. In the biogeographical Mediterranean area of North Africa there are 2 well represented genera with shrubby and tree species.
Key to genera
1 Adult leaves with rounded, rhomboid or triangular leaf blades, with lengthsimilar to the width or only slightly longer; petiole long and flexible; pendant aments Populus
1 Adult leaves with leaf blade ± linear-lanceolate, much longer thanwide, petiole short and rigid; ament erect or somewhat pendant Salix
Updated by: F. Alcaraz & J. Charco.