Platycarya

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Early Eocene|Recent}}

| image = Platycarya strobilacea1.jpg

| image_caption = Autumn foliage and fruit

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Platycarya

| authority = Siebold & Zucc.

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• See text

| synonyms = *Fortunaea {{small|Lindl.}}

• Petrophiloides {{small|E.Reid & M.Chandler}}

}}

Platycarya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae native to eastern Asia in China, Korea, and Japan.Flora of China: [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=125766 Platycarya]

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The genus was formerly treated as comprising a single species Platycarya strobilacea, though the second living species Platycarya longzhouensis is now recognized.{{cite journal |last1=Wan |first1=Q. |last2=Zheng |first2=Z. |last3=Huang |first3=K. |last4=Guichoux |first4=E. |last5=Petit |first5=R. J. |title=Genetic divergence within the monotypic tree genus Platycarya (Juglandaceae) and its implications for species' past dynamics in subtropical China |journal=Tree Genetics & Genomes |date=2017 |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1007/s11295-017-1153-9|s2cid=25199346 }}

A number of fossil species have been discovered across the Northern Hemisphere dating from the Early Eocene,{{cite journal |last1=Wing |first1=S. L. |last2=Hickey |first2=L. J. |title=The Platycarya perplex and the evolution of the Juglandaceae |journal=American Journal of Botany |date=1984 |volume=71 |issue=3 |pages=388–411 |doi=10.1002/j.1537-2197.1984.tb12525.x}} although they became confined to eastern Asia during the Pleistocene ice ages.{{cite journal |last1=Wing |first1=Scott L. |last2=Hickey |first2=Leo J. |year=1984 |title=The Platycarya Perplex and the Evolution of the Juglandaceae |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=71 |issue=3 |pages=388–411 |doi=10.2307/2443497 |jstor=2443497 }}{{Cite web |access-date = 2022-01-25 |title='Platycarya' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online |date=2019 |last1=Sutton |first1=Julian |url = https://treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/platycarya/ }}

• †Platycarya americana {{small|Hickey}}{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=55290|title = Fossilworks: Platycarya}}
• †Platycarya bognorensis {{small|(Chandler) Wing & Hickey}}
• †Platycarya castaneopsis {{small| (Lesquereux) Wing & Hickey}}
• †Platycarya manchesterii {{small|Wing & Hickey}}
• †Platycarya miocenica {{small|Hu & Chaney}}
• †Platycarya pseudobrauni {{small|(Hollick) Wolfe}}
• †Platycarya richardsoni (sic P. richardsonii) {{small|(Bowerbank) Chandler}}{{cite journal |last1=Manchester |first1=S. |year=1987 |title=Fossil History of the Juglandaceae |journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden |volume=21 |pages=1–137 |doi= |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235710972}}