Populus pruinosa

Populus pruinosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae, native to Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Xinjiang in China.[2] A halophytic tree usually 10 m (33 ft) tall, but occasionally reaching 20 m (66 ft), it is often found growing in basins.[3][4] Its bark is grayish-yellow, its branchlets and young sprouts are densely tomentulose and gray in color, and its leaves are tomentulose and grayish-blue.[3]

Populus pruinosa
In Yarkant County, Xinjiang, China, 1910
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Genus: Populus
Species:
P. pruinosa
Binomial name
Populus pruinosa
Synonyms[2]
  • Balsamiflua euphratica f. pruinosa (Schrenk) N.Chao & J.Liu
  • Balsamiflua pruinosa (Schrenk) Kimura
  • Turanga pruinosa (Schrenk) Kimura

References
  1. Participants of the FFI/IUCN SSC Central Asian regional tree Red Listing workshop, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (11-13 July 2006). (2007). "Populus pruinosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63496A12670489. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63496A12670489.en. Retrieved 25 July 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. "Populus pruinosa Schrenk". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  3. "灰胡杨 hui hu yang". Flora of China. efloras.org. 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  4. Yang, Wenlu; Wang, Kun; Zhang, Jian; Ma, Jianchao; Liu, Jianquan; Ma, Tao (2017). "The draft genome sequence of a desert tree Populus pruinosa". GigaScience. 6 (9): 1–7. doi:10.1093/gigascience/gix075. PMC 5603765. PMID 28938721.


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