''Carya hunanensis'' is a species of

hickory Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus ''Carya'', which includes around 18 species. Five or six species are native to China, Indochina, and India (Assam), as many as twelve are native to the United States, four are found in Mexi ...

native to

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It was first described by

Wan Chun Cheng Wan Chun Cheng or Zheng Wanjun (, 1908–1987) was a Chinese botanist. Initially one of the Chinese plant collectors who followed in the wake of the Europeans after 1920, he became one of the world's leading authorities on the taxonomy of gymnospe ...

and R.H. Chang. ''Carya hunanensis'' is part of the genus ''

Carya Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus ''Carya'', which includes around 18 species. Five or six species are native to China, Indochina, and India (Assam), as many as twelve are native to the United States, four are found in Mexi ...

'', and the family

Juglandaceae The Juglandaceae are a plant family known as the walnut family. They are trees, or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales. Members of this family are native to the Americas, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia. The nine or ten genera in the family have ...

. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.

Range

The tree is found in valleys and riverbanks at an elevation of 900–1000 meters. It is found in Guangxi, Guizhou, and Hunan.

Cultivation

The tree is cultivated for its edible nuts, which are also pressed for oil.

References

W.C. Cheng & R.H. Chang, 1979 ''In: Acta Phytotax. Sin. 17(2): 42-43, pl. 1'' World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World
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