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Populus

The genus Populus is in the family Salicaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Populus

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Populus acuminata Rydb. Accepted M TRO
Populus adenopoda Maxim. Accepted M TRO
Populus afghanica (Aitch. & Hemsl.) C.K. Schneid. Accepted M TRO
Populus alaschanica Kom. Accepted M TRO
Populus alba L. Accepted M TRO
Populus amurensis Kom. Accepted M TRO
Populus angustifolia E. James Accepted M TRO
Populus baicalensis Kom. Accepted M TRO
Populus balsamifera L. Accepted M TRO
Populus beijingensis W.Y. Hsu Accepted M TRO
Populus × berolinensis Dippel Accepted M TRO
Populus × canadensis Moench Accepted M TRO
Populus candicans Aiton Accepted M TRO
Populus canescens (Aiton) Sm. Accepted M TRO
Populus charbinensis C. Wang & Skvortsov Accepted M TRO
Populus ciliata Wall. ex Royle Accepted M TRO
Populus davidiana Dode Accepted M TRO
Populus deltoides W. Bartram ex Marshall Accepted M TRO
Populus dimorpha Brandegee Accepted M TRO
Populus euphratica Olivier Accepted M TRO
Populus flexibilis Roz. Accepted M TRO
Populus fremontii S. Watson Accepted M TRO
Populus gansuensis C. Wang & H.L. Yang Accepted M TRO
Populus girinensis Skvortsov Accepted M TRO
Populus glauca Haines Accepted M TRO
Populus × glaucicomans Dode Accepted M TRO
Populus guzmanantlensis J.A. Vazquez G. & Cuevas Accepted M TRO
Populus haoana Cheng & Z. Wang in Z. Wang & S. L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus × hopeiensis Hu & Chow Accepted M TRO
Populus hsinganica C. Wang & Skvortsov Accepted M TRO
Populus ilicifolia (Engl.) Rouleau Accepted L TRO
Populus iliensis Drobow Accepted M TRO
Populus intramongolica T.Y. Sun & E.W. Ma Accepted M TRO
Populus × jrtyschensis Cheng-yuan Yang Accepted M TRO
Populus kangdingensis C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus keerqinensis T.Y. Sun Accepted M TRO
Populus koreana Rehder Accepted M TRO
Populus lancifolia N. Chao Accepted M TRO
Populus lasiocarpa Oliv. Accepted M TRO
Populus laurifolia Ledeb. Accepted M TRO
Populus mainlingensis C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus manshurica Nakai Accepted M TRO
Populus maximowiczii A. Henry Accepted M TRO
Populus mexicana Wesm. ex DC. Accepted M TRO
Populus minhoensis S.F. Yang & H.F. Wu Accepted M TRO
Populus nakaii Skvortsov Accepted M TRO
Populus nigra L. Accepted M TRO
Populus ningshanica C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus nivea Willd. Accepted M TRO
Populus pamirica Kom. Accepted M TRO
Populus pilosa Rehder Accepted M TRO
Populus platyphylla T.Y. Sun Accepted M TRO
Populus pruinosa Schrenk Accepted M TRO
Populus przewalskii Maxim. Accepted M TRO
Populus pseudoglauca C. Wang & P.Y. Fu Accepted M TRO
Populus pseudomaximowiczii C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus pseudosimonii Kitag. Accepted M TRO
Populus × pseudotomentosa C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus purdomii Rehder Accepted M TRO
Populus qamdoensis C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus qiongdaoensis T. Hong & P. Luo Accepted M TRO
Populus × rasumowskiana Schneid. Accepted M TRO
Populus rotundifolia Griff. Accepted M TRO
Populus schneideri (Rehder) N. Chao Accepted M TRO
Populus shanxiensis C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus simaroa Rzed. Accepted M TRO
Populus simonii Carrière Accepted M TRO
Populus suaveolens Fisch. Accepted M TRO
Populus szechuanica C.K. Schneid. Accepted M TRO
Populus talassica Kom. Accepted M TRO
Populus tomentosa Carrière Accepted M TRO
Populus tremula L. Accepted M TRO
Populus tremuloides Michx. Accepted M TRO
Populus trichocarpa Torr. & A. Gray Accepted M TRO
Populus trinervis C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus ussuriensis Kom. Accepted M TRO
Populus violascens Dode Accepted M TRO
Populus wenxianica Z.C. Feng & J.L. Guo ex G.H. Zhu Accepted M TRO
Populus wilsonii C.K. Schneid. Accepted M TRO
Populus wuana C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus wulianensis S.B. Liang & X.W. Li Accepted M TRO
Populus xiangchengensis Z. Wang & S. L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus × xiaohei T.S. Hwang & Liang Accepted M TRO
Populus × xiaozhuanica W.Y. Hsu & Liang Accepted M TRO
Populus yatungensis (Z. Wang & P.Y. Fu) C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus yuana C. Wang & S.L. Tung Accepted M TRO
Populus yunnanensis Dode Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 199 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Populus. Of these 87 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 119 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Populus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 199 species names for the genus Populus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 87 43.7%
Synonym 47 23.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 65 32.7%

All names

The status of the 318 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Populus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 117 36.8%
Synonym 132 41.5%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 69 21.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 199 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Populus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 86 44 0 0 130 65.3%
Low confidence 1 3 0 65 69 34.7%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Populus, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 87 47 0 62 0 196 98.5%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 3 0 3 1.5%