Platycaryeae is a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s in 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 ...

, and comprising a single living genus ''

Platycarya ''Platycarya'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae native to eastern Asia in China, Korea, and Japan.Flora of China''Platycarya''/ref>Flora of China''Platycarya strobilacea''/ref> It is a deciduous tree growing to 15 m ta ...

''. The tribe is now native to eastern

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...

in China,

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

, and Japan.Flora of China
''Platycarya''
/ref>Flora of China
''Platycarya strobilacea''
/ref> A series of fossil genera have been described from the Northern Hemisphere dating between the Early Eocene, and gradually becoming confined to East Asia during the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in ...

ice ages. The fossil record is dominated by morphotaxa based on plant material, with isolated fruit, foliage, leaves, pollen, and woods in segregate mophogenera.

Genera

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'' *†'' Clarnoxylon''
(wood morphotaxon) *†'' Hooleya'' (fruit morphotaxon) *†'' Palaeoplatycarya'' (fruit morphotaxon) *†'' Platycarypollenites'' (pollen morphotaxon) *†'' Pterocaryopsis'' (fruit morphotaxon) *†'' Vinea'' (leaf morphotaxon)

References

Rosid tribes Juglandoideae {{Fagales-stub