Tamarix gracilis, Willd

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 294

13. T. gracilis Willd ., op. cit. 81 (1816).

Glabrous, bushy tree with brown or blackish bark. Leaves 1-4 mm, much longer than wide. Racemes 20-60 x 6-7 mm, usually aestival, solitary or in lax panicles. Bracts spathulate to narrowly trullate, acute, usually shorter than pedicels. Pedicel longer than calyx. Flowers 4- to 5-merous, the 4-merous sometimes with 1 antepetalous stamen. Sepals 1 mm, ovate, obtuse, subentire to irregularly denticulate. Petals 1 -25-2- 5 mm, elliptical to obovate, caducous. Filaments of antesepalous stamens inserted in shallow sinuses between the more or less emarginate lobes of the disc. Sand-dunes, river-banks and salt-marshes. From S.E. Ukraine to W. Kazakhstan. Rs (W, E). (W. & C. Asia.) European plants are referable to var. angustifolia (Ledeb.)

Baum ( T. angustifolia Ledeb. ).