Home Flora of Pakistan
Home
Name Search
Families
Genera
Species
District Map
Grid Map
Inventory Project
Populus nigra L. Search in The Plant ListSearch in IPNISearch in Australian Plant Name IndexSearch in NYBG Virtual HerbariumSearch in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleSearch in Type Specimen Register of the U.S. National HerbariumSearch in Virtual Herbaria AustriaSearch in JSTOR Plant ScienceSearch in SEINetSearch in African Plants Database at Geneva Botanical GardenAfrican Plants, Senckenberg Photo GallerySearch in Flora do Brasil 2020Search in Reflora - Virtual HerbariumSearch in Living Collections Decrease font Increase font Restore font
 

Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 1034. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: April-May.
General/Distribution: According to R.R. Stewart (l.c.), this taxon is widely distributed in Baluchistan, the NWFP, Punjab, Dir, Chitral, Swat, Astor, Gilgit, Balti, Nubra, Ladakh and Kashmir.

Distribution: Native in China (Xinjiang), widely cultivated in Pakistan, Kashmir, China, West and Central Asia, Europe, N. Africa.

Type: Type: Described from temperate Europe, Herb. Linn. 1183/3 (LINN).
Comment/Acknowledgements: It is the chief source of timber in the dry inner valleys were it is irrigated up to c. 4000 m (R. R. Stewart, l.c.).

Three varieties are recognized. Our material is in conformity with var. italica (Moench) Koehne, Deut. Dendrol. 81. 1893. (Populus italica Moench, Verz. Ausländ Bäume 79. 1785).

Map Location: B-9 Ladak, Leh to Káltse, Schlagintweit 1543 (BM); Karakoram, above Shigar, 10,000 ft, 6.8.1876, C. B. Clarke 30107 (BM); C-5 Wana, cultivated on roadside, tree, c. 10 m, 17.5.1978, S. Nazimuddin & S. Abedin 954 (KUH); D-4 Chotair near Ziarat on way to Loralai, c. 10 m, 18.5.1984, S. Omer & A. Ghafoor 1585 (BM).

 

Export To PDF Export To Word
Tree, up to 35 m tall,bark dull gray. Buds sticky. Young shoot terete, glabrous. Leaves on long shoots larger, broadly deltoid to deltoid, usually broader than long, truncate or rounded at the base, crenate, acute to acuminate. Leaves on short shoot smaller, rhombic ovate, longer than broad, cuneate at base, crenate-serrate, acuminate. Peiole 2.5-6 cm long, glabrous, lamina 5-10 (-12) x 4-8 (-15) cm. Male catkin 5-7.5 cm long; bracts brownish, 3-4 mm. Stamens (6)-15-30, anthers purple. Female catkin 5-10.5 cm. Ovary glabrous, stigmas 2, sessile, broad, obcordate. Fruiting catkin (5)-10-16 cm long. Capsule shortly stipitate, 2-valved, 5-7 x 3-4 mm.
 
 
© 2024 Missouri Botanical Garden - 4344 Shaw Boulevard - Saint Louis, Missouri 63110