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Populus sp., Poplar

genus Populus Linnaeus (1753)

• Modern species: Late Cretaceous - Present (99.7 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, Angiosperms, order Malpighiales, family Salicaceae

• Distribution
• Paleogene: Hokkaido
• Eocene: Hokkaido, Ehime
• Oligocene: Nagano
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Miyagi, Yamagata, Gunma, Gifu, Hyogo, Hiroshima
• Pleistocene: Tochigi
• Investigation in progress: Yamagata

• Subtaxa
• P. balsamoides
• P. emarginata
• P. eowightiana
• P. latior
• P. sanbonsugii
• P. suaveolens
• P. tremula var. sieboldii