Populus laurifolia

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderMalpighiales
5. FamilySalicaceae

Native toAltay, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, West Siberia, Xinjiang

Observations recorded1,840

Trees to 15 m tall; bark grayish, darkened and furrowed toward base of trunk; crown wide. Sprouts and branchlets yellowish, angled, tomentose or rarely glabrous. Buds conical, very viscid; basal scales tomentose. Leaves of short branchlets with leaf blade elliptic, ovate, or oblong-ovate, 6-12 × 4-7 cm, base rounded or cuneate, margin crenulate, ciliate, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Leaves of sprouts with petioles terete, 2-5 cm, adaxially canaliculate, tomentose; leaf blade lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 10-15 cm. Male catkin 3-4 cm; bracts suborbicular, 3-5 mm, usually caducous, base cuneate, margin laciniate, with brown lobes. Male flower: stamens 30-40; anthers purplish red. Female catkin 5-6 cm, elongated in fruit; rachis tomentose. Capsule ovoid, 5-6 mm, glabrous or pilose, 2- or 3-valved. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun.

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

190

With media

105

Family

Salicaceae

Collections

NHA, DEK, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, US, NY, CM

Recorded in

Russia, United States, Russian Federation, Pakistan, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Kazakhstan

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Populus

Image

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