Synonyms
Juglans fraxinifolia Lam; Juglans pterocarpa Michx.; Pterocarya fraxinifolia (Lam.) Spach
Local Names
Azerbaijan: Qanadmeyvə yalanqozı; Georgia: 
– Lapani (Makashvili 1991); English: Wingnut.
Botany and Ecology
A tree to 25–30 m high, and 1–1.5 m in diameter, with whitish non-fissured bark.Leaves pinnate, up to 60 cm long or more; leaflets 8–12 pairs, sessile or short-petiolulate, oblong or elongate-ovate, serrate-margined, apex acuminate, glabrous and lustrous above, paler below with hairs at the axils of veins. Staminate aments 5–7 cm long, solitary at the end of branchlets; pistillateaments terminal, with numerous sessile flowers. Fruit an irregularly turbinate nut, the wings broader than the body. In boggy or inundated places, in mixed woods near rivers, rarely forming small pure stands. Grows in the Caucasus (West and East Transcaucasia and Talysh), Iran. The species is fast growing and grows best on flat ground or shallow slopes near riverbanks and in deep moist soils....
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Mehdiyeva, N.P., Alizade, V.M., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Bussmann, R.W. (2017). Pterocarya pterocarpa (Michx.) Kunth ex Iljins Juglandaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_142
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