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Castanea Mill.
Genus represented by 9 species, distributed across temperate regions of the Holarctic. In North Africa there is a single species, C. sativa, a tree that is certainly a native species of the most humid mountains of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, although its spontaneity in the region had been in question.
Camus, A.A. 1929. Les Châtaigniers, monographie des genres Castanea et Castanopsis. París. 1 Vol. de texte et 1 Vol. d’Atlas.
Krebs P, Conedera M, Pradella M, Torrani D, Felber M, Tinner W. 2004. Quaternary refugia of the sweet chesnut (Castanea sativa Mill.): an extended palynological approach. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 13, 145-160.
Updated by: G. Benítez, J. Molero Mesa & J. Charco.