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Internal ID UUID64402a7d42507055923022
Scientific name Castanea pumila
Authority (L.) Mill.
First published in Gard. Dict. ed. 8 : n.º 2 (1768)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Castanea alnifolia var. pubescens Nutt. N. Amer. Sylv. 1: 36 (1857)
Castanea alnifolia Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 217 (1818)
Castanea alnifolia subsp. floridana (Sarg.) A.E.Murray Kalmia 12: 19 (1982)
Castanea alnifolia var. floridana Sarg. Bot. Gaz. 67: 242 (1919)
Castanea ashei Sudw. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 49: 267. 1922
Castanea chincapin hort. ex K.Koch Dendrologie 2(2): 24 (1873)
Castanea floridana (Sarg.) Ashe Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 49: 266 (1922)
Castanea floridana var. angustifolia Ashe Quart. Charleston Mus. 1: 30 (1925)
Castanea floridana var. arcuata Ashe Quart. Charleston Mus. 1: 30 (1925)
Castanea floridana var. margaretta (Ashe) Ashe Quart. Charleston Mus. 1: 30 (1925)
Castanea margaretta (Ashe) Ashe Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 50: 359 (1923)
Castanea margaretta var. angustifolia Ashe J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 40: 46 (1924)
Castanea margaretta var. arcuata Ashe J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 40: 46 (1924)
Castanea nana Muhl. Cat. Pl. Amer. Sept. : 86 (1813)
Castanea paucispina Ashe J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 41: 268 (1926)
Castanea pumila subsp. ashei (Sudw.) A.E.Murray Kalmia 12: 19 (1982):.
Castanea pumila var. ashei Sudw. Amer. Forest. 28: 301 (1922)
Castanea pumila var. margarettae Ashe Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 49: 265 (1922)
Castanea pumila var. nana (Elliott) A.DC. Prodr. 16(2): 115 (1864)
Fagus nana Du Roi ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 624 (1840)
Fagus pumila L. Sp. Pl. : 998 (1753)
Fagus pumila var. serotina Walter Fl. Carol. 233. 1788
Castanea floridana var. margarettae (Ashe) Ashe Quart. Charleston Mus. 1: 30 (1925)

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Language Common/alternative name
English allegheny chinquapin
English chinkapin
English chinquapin
English american chinquapin
English dwarf chestnut
Arabic كستناء قزمي
Croatian mali američki kesten
Japanese チンカピン
lb pumilakäschtebam
Latvian zemā kastaņa
Russian Каштан низкорослый
Ukrainian Каштан низькорослий

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  • Northern America
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Missouri
      • Oklahoma
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Indiana
      • Massachusetts
      • New Jersey
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      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • West Virginia
    • South-central U.S.A.
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    • Southeastern U.S.A.
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World Flora Online wfo-0000812123
Florida Plant Atlas 3659
Flora of Alabama 2146
USDA Plants CAPU9
Tropicos 13100252
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30006331-2
The Plant List kew-35028
PFAF Castanea pumila
PaleoBotany 76354
Open Tree Of Life 180564
NCBI Taxonomy 167378
Nature Serve 2.137550
IUCN Red List 138593360
IPNI 30006331-2
iNaturalist 84363
GBIF 5333212
Freebase /m/0dz1z5
FEIS plants/tree/caspum
EPPO CSNPU
EOL 1148509
USDA GRIN 9444
Wikipedia Castanea_pumila

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CuticleTrace: A toolkit for capturing cell outlines from leaf cuticle with implications for paleoecology and paleoclimatology Lloyd BA, Barclay RS, Dunn RE, Currano ED, Mohamaad AI, Skersies K, Punyasena SW Appl Plant Sci 02-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10873815
doi:10.1002/aps3.11566
PMID:38369978
Fine-Root Distribution and Soil Physicochemical Property Variations in Four Contrasting Urban Land-Use Types in South Korea Tran LT, An JY, Carayugan MB, Hernandez JO, Rahman SA, Youn WB, Carvalho JI, Jo MS, Han SH, Nguyen HH, Park BB Plants (Basel) 07-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10821101
doi:10.3390/plants13020164
PMID:38256718
Foraging Wild Edibles: Dietary Diversity in Expanded Food Systems Bellows AC, Raj S, Pitstick E, Potteiger MR, Diemont SA Nutrients 31-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10647252
doi:10.3390/nu15214630
PMID:37960283
Genetic Relationships of 118 Castanea Specific Germplasms and Construction of Their Molecular ID Based on Morphological Characteristics and SSR Markers Bai X, Zhang S, Wang W, Chen Y, Zhao Y, Shi F, Zhu C Plants (Basel) 24-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10096943
doi:10.3390/plants12071438
PMID:37050064
European and American chestnuts: An overview of the main threats and control efforts Fernandes P, Colavolpe MB, Serrazina S, Costa RL Front Plant Sci 24-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9449730
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.951844
PMID:36092400
Endophytic Fungi and Ecological Fitness of Chestnuts Nicoletti R, Beccaro GL, Sekara A, Cirillo C, Di Vaio C Plants (Basel) 13-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC7999096
doi:10.3390/plants10030542
PMID:33805750
The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire Cansler CA, Hood SM, Varner JM, van Mantgem PJ, Agne MC, Andrus RA, Ayres MP, Ayres BD, Bakker JD, Battaglia MA, Bentz BJ, Breece CR, Brown JK, Cluck DR, Coleman TW, Corace RG III, Covington WW, Cram DS, Cronan JB, Crouse JE, Das AJ, Davis RS, Dickinson DM, Fitzgerald SA, Fulé PZ, Ganio LM, Grayson LM, Halpern CB, Hanula JL, Harvey BJ, Kevin Hiers J, Huffman DW, Keifer M, Keyser TL, Kobziar LN, Kolb TE, Kolden CA, Kopper KE, Kreitler JR, Kreye JK, Latimer AM, Lerch AP, Lombardero MJ, McDaniel VL, McHugh CW, McMillin JD, Moghaddas JJ, O’Brien JJ, Perrakis DD, Peterson DW, Prichard SJ, Progar RA, Raffa KF, Reinhardt ED, Restaino JC, Roccaforte JP, Rogers BM, Ryan KC, Safford HD, Santoro AE, Shearman TM, Shumate AM, Sieg CH, Smith SL, Smith RJ, Stephenson NL, Stuever M, Stevens JT, Stoddard MT, Thies WG, Vaillant NM, Weiss SA, Westlind DJ, Woolley TJ, Wright MC Sci Data 22-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7308274
doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0522-7
PMID:32572035
Species Identification of Oaks (Quercus L., Fagaceae) from Gene to Genome Pang X, Liu H, Wu S, Yuan Y, Li H, Dong J, Liu Z, An C, Su Z, Li B Int J Mol Sci 26-Nov-2019
PMCID:PMC6928813
doi:10.3390/ijms20235940
PMID:31779118
Hybrid de novo genome assembly of Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) Xing Y, Liu Y, Zhang Q, Nie X, Sun Y, Zhang Z, Li H, Fang K, Wang G, Huang H, Bisseling T, Cao Q, Qin L Gigascience 12-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC6741814
doi:10.1093/gigascience/giz112
PMID:31513707
Pooled whole‐genome sequencing of interspecific chestnut (Castanea) hybrids reveals loci associated with differences in caching behavior of fox squirrels (Sciurus niger L.) LaBonte NR, Woeste KE Ecol Evol 23-Oct-2018
PMCID:PMC6262733
doi:10.1002/ece3.4336
PMID:30519394
Alternative Carrier Solvents for Pigments Extracted from Spalting Fungi Pittis L, Rodrigues de Oliveira D, Vega Gutierrez SM, Robinson SC Materials (Basel) 27-May-2018
PMCID:PMC6025569
doi:10.3390/ma11060897
PMID:29861469
Pest categorisation of Bretziella fagacearum Jeger M, Bragard C, Caffier D, Candresse T, Chatzivassiliou E, Dehnen‐Schmutz K, Gilioli G, Grégoire J, Jaques Miret JA, MacLeod A, Navajas Navarro M, Niere B, Parnell S, Potting R, Rafoss T, Rossi V, Urek G, Van Bruggen A, Van der Werf W, West J, Winter S, Boberg J, Gonthier P, Pautasso M EFSA J 22-Feb-2018
PMCID:PMC7009401
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5185
PMID:32625818
Plastid Genome Comparative and Phylogenetic Analyses of the Key Genera in Fagaceae: Highlighting the Effect of Codon Composition Bias in Phylogenetic Inference Yang Y, Zhu J, Feng L, Zhou T, Bai G, Yang J, Zhao G Front Plant Sci 01-Feb-2018
PMCID:PMC5800003
doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.00082
PMID:29449857
Completion of Eight Gynostemma BL. (Cucurbitaceae) Chloroplast Genomes: Characterization, Comparative Analysis, and Phylogenetic Relationships Zhang X, Zhou T, Kanwal N, Zhao Y, Bai G, Zhao G Front Plant Sci 12-Sep-2017
PMCID:PMC5600969
doi:10.3389/fpls.2017.01583
PMID:28955369
Positively selected amino acid replacements within the RuBisCO enzyme of oak trees are associated with ecological adaptations Hermida-Carrera C, Fares MA, Fernández Á, Gil-Pelegrín E, Kapralov MV, Mir A, Molins A, Peguero-Pina JJ, Rocha J, Sancho-Knapik D, Galmés J PLoS One 31-Aug-2017
PMCID:PMC5578625
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0183970
PMID:28859145

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