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|accepted_name=Carya aquatica
|accepted_authority=(F. Michaux) Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 222. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Water hickory;bitter pecan
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Juglans aquatica
|authority=F. Michaux
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hicoria aquatica
|authority=(F. Michaux) Britton
}}
|hierarchy=Juglandaceae;Carya;Carya aquatica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Juglandaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carya]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carya aquatica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="tree some measurement"><b>Trees,</b> to 46 m.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="bark coloration;bark coloration;bark relief;bark arrangement;strip length or size;plate width;scale size;scale shape"><b>Bark </b>light gray or brownish, exfoliating, separating freely into long strips or broad plates, less commonly with small platelike scales.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="twig coloration;twig coloration;twig coloration;twig coloration;twig size;twig pubescence;twig pubescence"><b>Twigs </b>brown to reddish-brown or black, slender, villous becoming glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="terminal bud coloration;terminal bud coloration;terminal bud coloration;terminal bud coloration;terminal bud coloration;terminal bud shape;terminal bud some measurement;terminal bud architecture or pubescence;terminal bud pubescence"><b>Terminal </b>buds brown, reddish-brown, or black, oblong, 8-10 mm, yellow-scaly, villous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="bud-scale arrangement or dehiscence">bud-scales valvate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="hood fusion">axillary buds protected by bracteoles fused into hood.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="leaf some measurement"><b>Leaves </b>4-6 dm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="petiole some measurement;petiole pubescence;petiole pubescence">petiole 3-8 cm, villous becoming glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="leaflet atypical quantity;leaflet atypical quantity;leaflet quantity;lateral petiolule some measurement;terminal petiolule atypical some measurement;terminal petiolule atypical some measurement;terminal petiolule some measurement"><b>Leaflets </b>(5-) 9-11 (-13), lateral petiolules 0-2 mm, terminal petiolules (2-) 6-10 (-14) mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade length;blade width;apex shape">blades ovatelanceolate, often falcate, 2-19 × 1-4 cm, margins finely or coarsely serrate to entire and wavy, without tufts of hairs, apex acuminate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="surface pubescence;surface architecture or pubescence;surface architecture or course;surface pubescence;surface pubescence;hair architecture;hair architecture or arrangement;scale size;scale architecture;scale size;scale architecture;scale size;scale shape;scale shape;scale architecture">surfaces abaxially villous with unicellular and 2-8-rayed fasciculate hairs along midrib and secondary-veins, densely scaly in spring with large peltate scales and small round, irregular, and 4-lobed peltate scales, adaxially villous along midrib near base, glabrous between veins.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="catkin architecture;catkin architecture;catkin some measurement;stalk pubescence;beak architecture or pubescence"><b>Staminate </b>catkins pedunculate, to 21 cm, stalks villous, bracts scaly;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="">anthers without hairs.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="fruit coloration;fruit coloration;fruit coloration;fruit coloration;fruit coloration;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit length;fruit width"><b>Fruits </b>brown, bronze, or black, obovoid, compressed, 1.5-3 × 1.5-2.5 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="husk pubescence or relief;husk thickness;husk dehiscence;suture architecture">husks rough, 1 mm thick, dehiscing to base or nearly so, sutures winged;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="nut coloration;nut shape;nut shape;nut shape;nut relief">nuts chocolate brown, broadly obovoid, compressed, 2-angled, verrucose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="shell width">shells thin.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>bitter.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="seed taste;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Bayous, river flood plains, bluffs, and levees, temporarily flooded bottomlands
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Carya aquatica hybridizes with C. illinoinensis (C. ×lecontei Little [= Hicoria texana Le Conte]) and is reported to hybridize with the tetraploid C. texana [C. ×ludoviciana (Ashe) Little].</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carya aquatica
|author=
|authority=(F. Michaux) Elliott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Hicoria aquatica
|basionyms=Juglans aquatica
|family=Juglandaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Bayous, river flood plains, bluffs, and levees, temporarily flooded bottomlands
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/287ef3db526bd807d435a3c7423ef2df1e951227/V3/V3_724.xml
|genus=Carya
|species=Carya aquatica
|2n chromosome quantity=32
|apex shape=acuminate
|bark arrangement=separating
|bark coloration=brownish;light gray
|bark relief=exfoliating
|beak architecture or pubescence=scaly
|blade length=2cm;19cm
|blade shape=falcate;ovatelanceolate
|blade width=1cm;4cm
|bud-scale arrangement or dehiscence=valvate
|catkin architecture=pedunculate;staminate
|catkin some measurement=0cm;21cm
|fruit coloration=black;bronze;black;bronze;brown
|fruit length=1.5cm;3cm
|fruit shape=compressed;obovoid
|fruit width=1.5cm;2.5cm
|hair architecture=unicellular
|hair architecture or arrangement=fasciculate
|hood fusion=fused
|husk dehiscence=dehiscing
|husk pubescence or relief=rough
|husk thickness=1
|lateral petiolule some measurement=0mm;2mm
|leaf some measurement=4dm;6dm
|leaflet atypical quantity=11;13
|leaflet quantity=9;11
|nut coloration=chocolate brown
|nut relief=verrucose
|nut shape=2-angled;compressed;obovoid
|petiole pubescence=glabrous;villous
|petiole some measurement=3cm;8cm
|plate width=broad
|scale architecture=peltate;peltate;peltate
|scale shape=4-lobed;round;plate-like
|scale size=small;large;large;small
|seed taste=bitter
|shell width=thin
|stalk pubescence=villous
|strip length or size=long
|surface architecture or course=irregular
|surface architecture or pubescence=scaly
|surface pubescence=glabrous;villous;villous
|suture architecture=winged
|terminal bud architecture or pubescence=yellow-scaly
|terminal bud coloration=black;reddish-brown;black;reddish-brown;brown
|terminal bud pubescence=villous
|terminal bud shape=oblong
|terminal bud some measurement=8mm;10mm
|terminal petiolule atypical some measurement=10mm;14mm
|terminal petiolule some measurement=6mm;10mm
|tree some measurement=0m;46m
|twig coloration=brown;reddish-brown or black
|twig pubescence=glabrous;villous
|twig size=slender
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