Populus platyphylla T. Y. Sun

Trees to 25 m tall; trunk to more than 50 cm d.b.h.; bark lacteous. Older branches yellow-brown; juvenile branchlets russet or green-brown, usually angled. Winter buds erect, dark brown, long conical, viscid. Leaves on short branchlets with petiole 2-6 cm, at least sparsely pubescent apically; leaf blade broadly ovate, rhombic-ovate, or ovate, 4-9 × 3.5-7 cm, abaxially pale, usually with sparse hairs, adaxially dull deep green, pilose along veins, margin with incurved, glandular teeth, apex apiculate-acuminate. Sprouts with leaf blade obovate or obovate-elliptic, on long shoots broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular, apex slightly acute or shortly acuminate. Male catkin ca. 5 cm; bracts white villous adaxially. Male flower: stamens 12-24. Fruiting catkin 10-12 cm; rachis pilose. Capsule ovoid, 6-7 mm, 2- or 3(or 4)-valved, shortly stipitate. Fl. Apr, fr. Jun.

Hebei, Nei Mongol (Hohhot, Wuchuan Xian), N Shanxi

* Valleys; circa 1600 m.

Populus platyphylla var. flaviflora T. Y. Sun; P. platyphylla var. glauca T. Y. Sun.

Populus platyphylla là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Liễu. Loài này được T.Y. Sun miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1985.