List of Quercus species

The genus Quercus (oak) contains about 600 species,^[1] some of which are listed here.

1 Subgenus Quercus
2 Subgenus Cyclobalanopsis
3 Notes
4 External links
5 Sources
6 References

Subgenus Quercus

Section Quercus

The white oaks (synonym sect. Lepidobalanus or Leucobalanus). Europe, Asia, north Africa, North America. Styles short; acorns mature in 6 months, sweet or slightly bitter, inside of acorn shell hairless.

Quercus alba — White Oak — eastern North America
Quercus aliena — Oriental White Oak — eastern Asia
Quercus arizonica — Arizona White Oak — # southwestern U.S., nw. Mexico
Quercus austrina — Bluff Oak — southeastern North America
Quercus berberidifolia — California Scrub Oak — # California
Quercus bicolor — Swamp White Oak — eastern & midwestern North America
Quercus boyntonii — Boynton's Post Oak — south central North America
Quercus brantii — Persian oak — south west Asia
Quercus carmenensis — Carmen Oak — Coahuila and Texas
Quercus chapmanii — Chapman Oak — # southeastern North America
Quercus chihuahuensis — Chihuahua oak — northern Mexico and Texas
Quercus cornelius-mulleri — Muller Oak — # southwestern North America
Quercus copeyensis — # Costa Rica, Panama
Quercus cubana - # western Cuba
Quercus dalechampii — southeastern Europe
Quercus depressipes — Davis Mountain Oak — # Texas
Quercus deserticola — # Mexico
Quercus dilatata — Moru Oak — # Himalayas
Quercus douglasii — Blue Oak — California
Quercus dumosa — Coastal Scrub Oak — # southern California
Quercus durata — Leather Oak — # California
Quercus engelmannii — Engelmann Oak — # southwestern California
Quercus faginea — Portuguese oak — # southwestern Europe
†Quercus furuhjelmi - Lived in Paleogene times
Quercus fusiformis — Texas Live Oak or Plateau Live Oak — # south central North America
Quercus gambelii — Gambel Oak — southwestern North America
Quercus garryana — Oregon White Oak or Garry Oak — western North America
Quercus geminata — Sand Live Oak — # southeastern North America
Quercus glaucoides — # Mexico
Quercus grisea — Gray Oak — # south central North America
Quercus havardii — Havard Oak, Shinnery oak, Shin Oak — south central North America
Quercus hinckleyi — Hinckley Oak — # Texas, northwestern Mexico
Quercus hondurensis — Honduras Oak — # Honduras
Quercus ilex — Holly Oak or Holm Oak — # southern Europe, northwestern Africa
Quercus insignis — Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama
Quercus intricata — Coahuila Scrub Oak — # two isolated localities in west Texas, northern Mexico
Quercus john-tuckeri — Tucker's Oak — # southwestern North America
Quercus laceyi — Lacey Oak — Edwards Plateau of Texas, northern Mexico
Quercus lanata — Woolly-leaved Oak — # Himalayas
Quercus leucotrichophora — Banj Oak — # Himalayas
Quercus lobata — Valley Oak or California White Oak — California
Quercus lusitanica — Gall Oak or Lusitanian Oak — Iberia, North Africa
Quercus lyrata — Overcup Oak — eastern North America
Quercus macrocarpa — Bur Oak — eastern and central North America
Quercus mohriana — Mohr Oak — # southwestern North America
Quercus michauxii — Swamp Chestnut Oak — eastern North America
Quercus minima — Dwarf Live Oak — # southeastern North America
Quercus mongolica — Mongolian Oak — eastern Asia
Quercus muehlenbergii — Chinkapin Oak — eastern, central, and southwestern US (West Texas and New Mexico), northern Mexico
Quercus nigra — Water Oak — South Eastern U.S.
Quercus oblongifolia — Mexican Blue Oak — # southwestern U.S., nw. Mexico
Quercus oglethorpensis — Oglethorpe Oak — southeastern North America
Quercus oleoides — # from Costa Rica into Mexico
Quercus peduncularis — # Central America
Quercus petraea — Sessile Oak — Europe, Anatolia
Quercus polymorpha — Monterrey Oak, Mexican White Oak — # Mexico and extreme S. Texas
Quercus prinoides — Dwarf Chinkapin Oak — eastern North America
Quercus prinus — Chestnut Oak — eastern North America (= Quercus montana)
Quercus pubescens — Downy Oak — Europe, Anatolia
Quercus pungens — Sandpaper Oak — # south central North America
Quercus robur — Pedunculate Oak or English Oak — Europe, West Asia
Quercus rugosa — Netleaf Oak — # southwestern U.S., nw. Mexico
Quercus sadleriana — Deer Oak — # sw. Oregon, northern California
Quercus stellata — Post Oak — eastern North America
Quercus toumeyi — Toumey Oak — # southwest New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, northern Mexico
Quercus turbinella — Shrub Live Oak or Scrub Live Oak — # southwestern North America
Quercus vaseyana — Vasey Oak — # southwestern North America
Quercus virginiana — Southern Live Oak — # southeastern North America

Section Mesobalanus

Europe, Asia, north Africa. Styles long; acorns mature in 6 months, bitter, inside of acorn shell hairless (closely related to sect. Quercus and sometimes included in it).

Quercus canariensis — Mirbeck's Oak or Algerian Oak — # North Africa & Spain
Quercus dentata — Daimyo Oak — eastern Asia
Quercus frainetto — Hungarian Oak or Italian Oak — southeastern Europe
Quercus macranthera — Caucasian Oak or Persian Oak — western Asia
Quercus pontica — Armenian Oak — western Asia
Quercus pyrenaica — Pyrenean Oak — southwestern Europe
Quercus vulcanica — Kasnak Oak — southwestern Asia

Section Cerris

Europe, Asia, north Africa. Styles long; acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell hairless or slightly hairy.

Quercus acutissima — Sawtooth Oak — eastern Asia
Quercus alnifolia — Golden Oak — # Cyprus
Quercus calliprinos — Palestine Oak — # southwestern Asia
Quercus castaneifolia — Chestnut-leaved Oak — Caucasus, Iran (Persia)
Quercus cerris — Turkey Oak — southern Europe, southwestern Asia
Quercus coccifera — Kermes Oak — # southern Europe
Quercus infectoria — Aleppo Oak, Cyprus Oak — southern Europe, southwestern Asia
Quercus libani — Lebanon Oak — southwestern Asia
Quercus macrolepis — Vallonea Oak — # southwestern Asia
Quercus semecarpifolia — Brown Oak or Kharshu Oak — # Himalayas
Quercus suber — Cork Oak — # southwestern Europe, northwestern Africa
Quercus trojana — Macedonian Oak — # southeastern Europe
Quercus variabilis — Chinese Cork Oak — eastern Asia

Section Protobalanus

The intermediate oaks. Southwest USA & northwest Mexico. Styles short, acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell woolly.

Quercus cedrosensis — Cedros Island Oak — # Baja California
Quercus chrysolepis — Canyon Live Oak — # southwestern North America
Quercus palmeri — Palmer Oak — # sw. Oregon, California, western Arizona
Quercus tomentella — Island Oak — # California offshore islands
Quercus vaccinifolia — Huckleberry Oak — # southwestern North America

Section Lobatae

The red oaks (synonym sect. Erythrobalanus). North, Central & South America. Styles long, acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell woolly.

Quercus acerifolia — Maple-leaved Oak or Mapleleaf Oak — south central North America
Quercus agrifolia — Coast Live Oak — # California, northern Baja California
Quercus arkansana — Arkansas Oak — Southeastern North America
Quercus buckleyi — Texas Red Oak — southwestern North America
Quercus canbyi — Canby Oak or Mexican Red Oak — # Mexico
Quercus castanea — # Mexico
Quercus coccinea — Scarlet Oak — eastern North America
Quercus costaricensis — # Costa Rica, Panama
Quercus cualensis — # Mexico (Sierra Madre del Sur)
Quercus depressa — Mexico
Quercus eduardii — Mexico
Quercus ellipsoidalis — Northern Pin Oak — eastern North America
Quercus emoryi — Emory Oak — # southwestern U.S., northern Mexico
Quercus falcata — Southern Red Oak or Spanish Oak — southeastern North America
Quercus gravesii — Chisos Red Oak or Graves Oak — Mexico, southwestern North America (Texas)
Quercus graciliformis — Chisos Oak — # Extreme SW North America
Quercus georgiana — Georgia Oak — southeastern North America
Quercus hintoniorum — # Mexico
Quercus hirtifolia — # Mexico
Quercus humboldtii — Andean Oak — # northern South America (Colombia)
Quercus hypoleucoides — Silverleaf Oak — # southwestern North America
Quercus hypoxantha — # Mexico
Quercus ilicifolia — Bear Oak — eastern North America
Quercus iltisii — # Southern Mexico
Quercus imbricaria — Shingle Oak — eastern North America
Quercus incana — Bluejack Oak — southeastern North America
Quercus inopina — Sandhill Oak — # southeastern North America
Quercus kelloggii — California Black Oak — California, sw. Oregon
Quercus laevis — Turkey Oak — southeastern North America
Quercus laurifolia — Laurel Oak — # southeastern North America
Quercus laurina — # Mexico
Quercus marilandica — Blackjack Oak — eastern North America
Quercus myrtifolia — Myrtle Oak — # southeastern North America
Quercus nigra — Water Oak — # eastern North America
Quercus pagoda – Cherrybark Oak — southeastern North America
Quercus palustris — Pin Oak — eastern North America
Quercus parvula — Santa Cruz Island Scrub Oak — # Santa Cruz Island California
Quercus phellos — Willow Oak — eastern North America
Quercus pumila — Runner Oak — # southeastern North America
Quercus rapurahuensis — Talamanca Oak — # Costa Rica, Panama
Quercus rhysophylla — Loquat-leaf Oak — # Mexico
Quercus rubra — Northern Red Oak — eastern North America
Quercus salicifolia — # Mexico
Quercus sapotifolia — # southern Mexico, Central America
Quercus shumardii — Shumard Oak — eastern North America
Quercus tardifolia — Lateleaf Oak — # two small clumps in Chisos Mountains of Texas
Quercus texana — Nuttall's Oak — south central North America (Lower Mississippi River Valley)
Quercus velutina — Black Oak or Eastern Black Oak or Dyer's Oak — eastern North America
Quercus wislizeni — Interior Live Oak — # California
Quercus xalapensis — Mexico

Subgenus Cyclobalanopsis

The ring-cupped oaks (synonym genus Cyclobalanopsis). Eastern and southeastern Asia. They are distinct from subgenus Quercus in that they have acorns with distinctive cups bearing concrescent rings of scales; they commonly also have densely clustered acorns, though this does not apply to all of the species. About 150 species.

Selected species

Quercus acuta — Japanese Evergreen Oak. # Japan, Korea.
Quercus albicaulis — # China.
Quercus argentata — # Malaysia, Indonesia.
Quercus argyrotricha — # Guizhou (China).
Quercus augustinii — # China, Vietnam.
Quercus austrocochinchinensis — # China, Vietnam, Thailand.
Quercus austroglauca — # China.
Quercus bella — # China.
Quercus blakei — # China, Vietnam, Laos.
Quercus camusiae — # China, Vietnam.
Quercus championii — # China, Taiwan.
Quercus chapensis — # China, Vietnam.
Quercus chevalieri — # China, Vietnam.
Quercus chingsiensis — # China.
Quercus chungii — # China.
Quercus daimingshanensis — # China.
Quercus delavayi — # China.
Quercus delicatula — # China.
Quercus dinghuensis — # China.
Quercus disciformis — # China.
Quercus edithiae — # China, Vietnam.
Quercus elevaticostata — # Fujian (China).
Quercus fleuryi — # China, Vietnam, Laos.
Quercus gambleana — # China, India.
Quercus gemelliflora — # Malaysia, Indonesia.
Quercus gilva — # Japan, Taiwan, China.
Quercus glauca — Ring-cupped Oak. # From Afghanistan to Japan and Vietnam.
Quercus helferiana — # China, India, Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam.
Quercus hondae — # Kyūshū (Japan).
Quercus hui — # China.
Quercus hypophaea — # Taiwan.
Quercus jenseniana — # China.
Quercus jinpinensis — # China.
Quercus kerrii — Kerr's Oak. # Vietnam, Thailand, possibly China.
Quercus kiukiangensis — # China.
Quercus kouangsiensis — # China.
Quercus lamellosa — # Himalayas.
Quercus lineata — # Malaysia, Indonesia.
Quercus litoralis — # China.
Quercus litseoides — # China.
Quercus lobbii — # China, India.
Quercus longinux — # Taiwan.
Quercus lowii — # Borneo.
Quercus lungmaiensis — # Yunnan (China).
Quercus merrillii — # Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia), Palawan (Philippines).
Quercus morii — # Taiwan.
Quercus motuoensis — # China.
Quercus multinervis — # China.
Quercus myrsinifolia — Bamboo-leaf Oak. # China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam.
Quercus neglecta — # China, Vietnam.
Quercus ningangensis — # China.
Quercus obovatifolia — # China.
Quercus oxyodon — # Assam, Myanmar, China, Bhutan, Nepal.
Quercus pachyloma — # China, Taiwan.
Quercus patelliformis — # China.
Quercus pentacycla — # China.
Quercus phanera — # China.
Quercus poilanei — # China, Vietnam, Thailand.
Quercus rex — # China, Vietnam, India, Laos, Myanmar.
Quercus salicina — # Japan, South Korea.
Quercus saravanensis — # China, Laos, Vietnam.
Quercus schottkyana — # China.
Quercus semiserrata — # China, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand.
Quercus sessilifolia — # Japan, Taiwan, China.
Quercus sichourensis — # Yunnan (China).
Quercus stenophylloides — # Taiwan.
Quercus stewardiana — # China.
Quercus subhinoidea — # China.
Quercus subsericea — # Malaysia, Indonesia.
Quercus sumatrana — # Indonesia
Quercus thorelii — # China, Laos, Vietnam.
Quercus tomentosinervis — # China.
Quercus treubiana — # Sumatra, Borneo.
Quercus xanthotricha — # China, Laos, Vietnam.
Quercus yingjiangensis — # China.

Notes

# Species with evergreen foliage ("live oaks") are tagged #. Note that the change from deciduous to evergreen character (or vice-versa) has evolved on numerous occasions in Quercus, and does not necessarily indicate that the species concerned are closely related.

External links

Sources

Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan, 1984. ISBN 978-0874747089
Soepadmo, E., Julia, S., & Rusea G. Fagaceae. In Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak, Volume 3, 2006. Soepadmo, E., Saw, L.G. eds. Government of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ISBN 983-2181-06-2

References

^ David J. Mabberley. 1987. The Plant-Book first edition (1987). Cambridge University Press: UK. ISBN 0-521-34060-8