Juglandaceae, forby kent as the wawnit faimily, is a faimily o trees, or whiles shrubs, in the order Fagales. Various members o this faimily is native tae the Americas, Eurasie, an Sootheast Asie. Members o the walnut faimily hae lairge, aromatic leafs that is uisually alternate, but opposite in Alfaroa an Oreomunnia. The leafs is pinnately compound, or ternate, an uisually 20–100 cm lsng.
The trees is wind-pollinated, an the flouers is uisually arranged in catkins.
The aicht genera in the faimily include the commercially important nit-producin trees wawnit (Juglans), pecan (Carya illinoinensis), an hickory (Carya). The Persie wawnit, Juglans regia, is ane o the major nit craps o the warld. Wawnit, hickory, an gaulin is valuable timber trees an aa.
The kent livin genera are grooped intae subfaimilies, tribes, an subtribes as follaes:[2]
Subfaimily Engelhardioideae
Subfaimily Juglandoideae
Tribe Platycaryeae
Tribe Juglandeae
Subtribe Caryinae
Subtribe Juglandinae
Incertae sedis
The anly member o the genus Alfaropsis I.A.Iljinsk., Alfaropsis roxburghiana (Wall.) I.A.Iljinsk. is a synonym for Engelhardia roxburghiana Wall. (or perhaps vice-versa).
The anly member o the genus Annamocarya A.Chev., Annamocarya sinensis (Dode) J.-F.Leroy, may actually be a member o Carya.
|coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) Juglandaceae, forby kent as the wawnit faimily, is a faimily o trees, or whiles shrubs, in the order Fagales. Various members o this faimily is native tae the Americas, Eurasie, an Sootheast Asie. Members o the walnut faimily hae lairge, aromatic leafs that is uisually alternate, but opposite in Alfaroa an Oreomunnia. The leafs is pinnately compound, or ternate, an uisually 20–100 cm lsng.
The trees is wind-pollinated, an the flouers is uisually arranged in catkins.
The aicht genera in the faimily include the commercially important nit-producin trees wawnit (Juglans), pecan (Carya illinoinensis), an hickory (Carya). The Persie wawnit, Juglans regia, is ane o the major nit craps o the warld. Wawnit, hickory, an gaulin is valuable timber trees an aa.
