G.W. Argus (argus@sympatico.ca) (1)
C.L. McJannet (cmcjannet@designpr.com) (2)
M.J. Dallwitz (md@ento.csiro.au) (3)
(1) Research Services, Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station D,
Ottawa ON K1P 6P4, Canada. Also R.R. 3 – 310 Haskins Road, Merrickville, ON
K0G 1N0, Canada.
(2) 245 Spruce Ridge Road, Carp, ON K0A 1L0.
(3) CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601,
Australia. Phone +61 2 6246 4075. Fax +61 2 6246 4000.
This is part of a series (Aiken et al. 1996, 1998) which presents data on the flora of the Arctic Archipelago in the form of a computerized morphological database and illustrations that may be used in interactive identification and in information retrieval.
Please note that the morphological data presented here were extracted, in 1997, from the Salix database created and maintained by the first author. Changes and additions made since that time are not incorporated in the present publication. For further information please contact G. W. Argus.
In the Canadian Arctic Archipelago the family Salicaceae is represented only by the genus Salix. The description of the family is therefore a summation of the characters represented by the sixteen Salix taxa that occur in the study area. The geographical scope of this study includes the islands of the Northwest territories east of 127°W and the islands of Nunavut north of 60°N in northern Hudson Bay (including Southampton Island, White and Caribou Islands, Coats Island, Bencas Island, Digges and Mansel islands) and Akpotok Island in Ungava Bay.
All names used in Porsild (1957), Polunin (1940, 1959), and Hultén (1968) are accounted for. The morphological data are based largely on specimens in the National Herbarium of Canada (CAN) and the Agriculture Canada Herbarium, Ottawa (DAO)supplemented by data from other herbaria; the descriptions are based on specimens from throughout the taxon’s range. Quantitative data are given as a simple range [10–25], as range with mean [10–3.5–25], or as range with extremes [(3–)10–25(–40)].
The maps are based on specimens in the Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium (CAN), the Department of Agriculture Herbarium, Ottawa (DAO), Queens University Herbarium (QK), and the Montreal Botanical Garden Herbarium (MT).
This package is generated from a DELTA database (Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993, 1995, 2000). It comprises an interactive identification and information retrieval system using the program Intkey (running under MS-Windows), descriptions (as WWW pages and MS-Word documents), illustrations, references, and other subsidiary material.
Cite this publication as: G.W. Argus, C.L. McJannet and M.J. Dallwitz (1999 onwards). ‘Salicaceae of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval.’ Version: 2nd November 2000. http://www.mun.ca/biology/delta/arcticf/. Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993, 1995, 2000) should also be cited (see References).