Description

Pterocarya stenoptera (Chinese wingnut) is a small-winged wingnut tree of the Juglandaceae family. It is originally from Southeast China. The leaves of P. stenoptera has the functions of dispelling pathogenic wind for suppressing pains, destroying parasites for suppressing itching, and detoxifying for closing sores.

Scientific classitication

Family: Juglandaceae

Genus: Pterocarya

Common Name

Chinese wingnut

Reference

Kristian A Stevens, Keith Woeste, Sandeep Chakraborty, Marc W Crepeau, Charles A Leslie, Pedro J Martínez-García, Daniela Puiu, Jeanne Romero-Severson, Mark Coggeshall, Abhaya M Dandekar, Daniel Kluepfel, David B Neale, Steven L Salzberg, Charles H Langley, Genomic Variation Among and Within Six Juglans Species, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Volume 8, Issue 7, 1 July 2018, Pages 2153–2165, https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.118.200030