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Southern live oaks
Virentes
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.
10 branches of this group, most-observed first
southern live oak
speciesQuercus virginiana
Texas live oak
speciesQuercus fusiformis
sand live oak
speciesQuercus geminata
dwarf live oak
speciesQuercus minima
olive oak
speciesQuercus oleoides
Brandegee Oak
speciesQuercus brandegeei
Quercus × succulenta
hybridQuercus × succulenta
Quercus geminata × virginiana
hybridQuercus geminata × virginiana
Cuban Oak
speciesQuercus sagraeana
Quercus fusiformis × oleoides
hybridQuercus fusiformis × oleoides
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 861035.