View source for Carya myristiciformis

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|accepted_name=Carya myristiciformis
|accepted_authority=(F. Michxaux) Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 222. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Nutmeg hickory;nogal
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Juglans myristiciformis
|authority=F. Michaux
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hicoria myristiciformis
|authority=(F. Michaux) Britton
}}
|hierarchy=Juglandaceae;Carya;Carya myristiciformis
|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 myristiciformis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> to 35 m. <b>Bark</b> gray to brownish, fissured or exfoliating, separating freely into long strips or broad plates. <b>Twigs</b> brown to bronze, slender, without hairs, densely scaly. <b>Terminal</b> buds bronze, ovoid, 4-6 mm, essentially without hairs, densely scaly; bud scales valvate; axillary buds protected by bracteoles fused into hood. <b>Leaves</b> 3-6 dm; petiole 3-10 cm, densely scaly. <b>Leaflets</b> (5-)7-9, lateral petiolules 0-2 mm, terminal petiolules 2-3 mm; blades ovate or obovate to elliptic, not falcate, 3-17 × 1-8 cm, margins finely to coarsely serrate, without tufts of hairs, apex acuminate; surfaces abaxially with unicellular and 2-4-rayed fasciculate hairs along midrib in spring, densely scaly with coating of large peltate scales and small irregular, round, and 4-lobed peltate scales, imparting bronze color, adaxially pubescent along midrib and major veins in spring, with scattered peltate scales. <b>Staminate</b> catkins pedunculate, to 6 cm, stalks and bracts scaly; anthers hirsute. <b>Fruits</b> light tan to bronze, obovoid to ellipsoid, not compressed, 2-3 × 1.5-2 cm; husks rough, 2 mm thick, dehiscing to base, sutures winged; nuts reddish brown mottled with tan patches, ellipsoid, not compressed, not angled, smooth; shells thick. <b>Seeds</b> sweet. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=River bottomlands, edges of streams, bluffs, and hillsides, often on calcareous prairie soils and marl ridges
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León).
|discussion=<p>Carya myristiciformis is the rarest species in the genus. It is patchily distributed from the mountains of northeastern Mexico to the coastal plain of North Carolina.</p>
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name=Carya myristiciformis
|author=
|authority=(F. Michxaux) Elliott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Hicoria myristiciformis
|basionyms=Juglans myristiciformis
|family=Juglandaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=River bottomlands, edges of streams, bluffs, and hillsides, often on calcareous prairie soils and marl ridges
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León).
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=
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|genus=Carya
|species=Carya myristiciformis
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