Populus angustifolia E.James

, Account Exped. Pittsburgh [ed. Philadelphia] 1: 497 (1822).
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:208240-2
Publication
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, sec'y of warunder the command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say ...Philadelphia
Collation
1: 497
Date of Publication
dt. 1823; issued 31 Dec 1822
Family as entered in IPNI
Salicaceae

Type Information

Locality
Rocky Mountains
Distribution Of Types
United States of America (Northern America)

Remarks

James provided a validating diagnosis: The long leaved cotton-wood ... is found intermixed with the common cotton-wood, resembling in size and general aspect. Its leaves are long and narrow, its trunk smoother, and its branches more slender and flexile than those of Populus anuglata. Some of its fruits was fortunately still remaining ...

Links

Basionym of
Populus balsamifera var. angustifolia (E.James) S.Watson, Botany [Fortieth Parallel] 327 (1871).
Nomenclatural link
Populus fortissima A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr., Bot. Gaz. 56: 473 (1913).