5. Populus pamirica Komarov, J. Bot. URSS. 19: 510. 1934; Neumann in Rech.f., Fl. Iran, 65: 10. 1969; R.R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. Kashm. 181. 1972; F. Zhenfu, Z. Shidong & A.K. Skvortsov l.c. 155.
English: Baham poplar.
P. balsamifera auct. non. L.: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 5: 638. 1888; R. Parker, For. Fl. Punj. ed. 3: 510. 1956.
Medium sized tree, branchlets brownish, greyish, sulcate, quadrangular slightly velvety; buds sticky. Leaves petiolate, petiole 2-8 cm long, slightly pubescent; lamina 4-10.5-(18) x 3-9 cm, ovate, crenate to denticulate, glabrous or sparingly pubescent at the margin, acuminate. Male catkin: rachis slightly winged. Stamens 18-25, filaments slender, longer than anthers. Female catkin 6-10 cm long, rachis densely pubescent; capsule, 4 mm long, sparingly hairy, warty, 3-valved, pedicel 1-1.5 mm.
Fl. Per.: May.
Type: In district Schugnan ad. fl. Schach-dara, 26.7.1897 S.L. Korshinsky (LE).
Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan (Chitral, Gilgit), Kashmir, Tajikistan, China (Xinjiang).
