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Quercus
Quercus subgenus Quercus is one of the two subgenera into which the genus Quercus was divided in a 2017 classification (the other being subgenus Cerris). It contains about 190 species divided among five sections. It may be called the New World clade or the high-latitude clade; most species are native to the Americas, the others being found in Eurasia and northernmost North Africa.
12 branches of this group, most-observed first
white oaks
sectionQuercus
red oaks
sectionLobatae
Southern live oaks
sectionVirentes
North America intermediate oaks
sectionProtobalanus
Ponticae
sectionPonticae
Quercus garryana × sadleriana
hybridQuercus garryana × sadleriana
Compton Oak
hybridQuercus × comptoniae
Harbison Oak
hybridQuercus × harbisonii
Rolf's oak
hybridQuercus × rolfsii
Burnet Oak
hybridQuercus × burnetensis
Quercus turbinella × virginiana
hybridQuercus turbinella × virginiana
Quercus × neotharpii
hybridQuercus × neotharpii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.263
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.261
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.832
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.832
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.45
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.155
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.239
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.242
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1266
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.19
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.18
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.33
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 861029.