Juglans boliviana, also known as Bolivian walnut,[1] is a tree in the family Juglandaceae. According to a paper in 1960 entitled The Genus Juglans in South America and the West Indies[2] by American horticulturist and botanist Wayne Eyer Manning, it occurs in the Andes of northern Bolivia.[3]

Juglans boliviana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fagales
Family: Juglandaceae
Genus: Juglans
Section: Juglans sect. Rhysocaryon
Species:
J. boliviana
Binomial name
Juglans boliviana
(C. DC.) Dode
Synonyms

Juglans nigra var. boliviana C. DC.
Juglans peruviana Dode

Wayne Manning included the species Juglans peruviana, described by French botanist Louis-Albert Dode in 1909 from nuts collected at an unknown locality in Peru, because the nuts closely match those of J. boliviana and apparently came from Metraro, where only J. boliviana is known.[4]

References

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  1. ^ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (1959). Dogfish Shark Eradication: Hearing Before the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, S. 1264, May 22, 1959. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 104–.
  2. ^ "The Genus Juglans in South America and the West Indies on JUSTOR". JSTOR. JSTOR 2805331.
  3. ^ Manning 1960, p. 13.
  4. ^ Manning 1960, p. 12.

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