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Cyclocarya
Sign in to saveCyclocarya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae, comprising a single species Cyclocarya paliurus (qing qian liu or wheel wingnut), formerly treated in the genus Pterocarya as Pterocarya paliurus. It is native to eastern and central China.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFagales
- FamilyJuglandaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 232
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Juglandaceae
- Collections
- FMNH, USNM, YPM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Juglandaceae
- Image
- Cyclocarya paliurus IMG 2983.jpg
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- taxon name
- Cyclocarya
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Cyclocarya
- taxon common name
- 青钱柳属
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cyclocarya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae, comprising a single species Cyclocarya paliurus (qing qian liu or wheel wingnut), formerly treated in the genus Pterocarya as Pterocarya paliurus. It is native to eastern and central China.
It is a deciduous tree growing to 30 m tall. The foliage is similar to Pterocarya, with pinnate leaves 20–25 cm long with five to eleven leaflets, the terminal leaflet present; the leaflets are 5–14 cm long and 2–6 cm broad. The flowers are catkins; the male (pollen) catkins are produced in clusters (not singly as in Pterocarya), the female catkins 25–30 cm long at maturity, bearing several small winged nuts with a circular wing 2.5–6 cm diameter right round the nut (instead of two wings at the sides as in Pterocarya).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cyclocarya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.