Platycarya

Platycarya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae native to eastern Asia in China, Korea, and Japan.^[1]

Platycarya strobilacea

Platycarya Temporal range: Early Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Autumn foliage and fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fagales
Family:	Juglandaceae
Subfamily:	Juglandoideae
Tribe:	Platycaryeae
Genus:	Platycarya Siebold & Zucc.
Species
See text
Synonyms
Fortunaea Lindl. Petrophiloides E.Reid & M.Chandler

The genus was formerly treated as comprising a single species Platycarya strobilacea, though the second living species Platycarya longzhouensis is now recognized.^[2]

A number of fossil species have been discovered across the Northern Hemisphere dating from the Early Eocene,^[3] although they became confined to eastern Asia during the Pleistocene ice ages.^[4][5]

• †Platycarya americana Hickey^[6]
• †Platycarya bognorensis (Chandler) Wing & Hickey
• †Platycarya castaneopsis (Lesquereux) Wing & Hickey
• †Platycarya manchesterii Wing & Hickey
• †Platycarya miocenica Hu & Chaney
• †Platycarya pseudobrauni (Hollick) Wolfe
• †Platycarya richardsoni (sic P. richardsonii) (Bowerbank) Chandler^[6][7]