Fagaceae

Castanea Daubenton

First published in D.Diderot & J.L.R.d’Alembert, Encycl. Dict. Raisonné Sci. 3: 236 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is SE. Canada to Central & E. U.S.A., SE. Europe to Iran, China to Japan.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Albania, Arkansas, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Connecticut, Delaware, East Aegean Is., Florida, Georgia, Greece, Illinois, Indiana, Iran, Japan, Kentucky, Korea, Lebanon-Syria, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin

Introduced into:

Algeria, Assam, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corse, Cuba, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, France, Germany, Great Britain, Haiti, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Juan Fernández Is., Kriti, Krym, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Ukraine, West Himalaya, Windward Is.

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (1998). World Checklist and Bibliography of Fagales: 1-408. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Living Collection Database

    • Common Names from Kew's Living Collection Database

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0