Castanea dentata, Chestnut
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Description:
One pressed specimen of an American chestnut tree collected from Pendleton in July 1835. This species is listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List.
Castanea dentata Borkh.
- Site: SC; Pickens Co.
- Site Number: NH50
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Order: Fagales
- Family: Fagaceae
- Genus: Castanea
- Species: Castanea dentata
- Collection: Herbarium Collection
- Object Name: Flowering Plants
- Object Id: BY6384
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