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Castanea sp., Chestnut(s)

genus Castanea Miller (1754)

• Modern species: Eocene - Present (55.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, Angiosperms, order Fagales, family Fagaceae

• Distribution
• Oligocene: Nagano
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Akita, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano, Ishikawa, Fukui, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Gifu, Hyogo, Tottori
• Pliocene: Miyagi
• Pleistocene: Nagano, Tochigi, Saitama, Tokyo, Shizuoka, Okayama, Hiroshima
• Holocene: Yamagata
• Investigation in progress: niigata

• Subtaxa
• C. crenata, Japanese chestnut
• C. miomollissima