Quercus pumila
Quercus pumila

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Fagales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fagales

Familia: Fagaceae
Genus: Quercus
Species: Quercus pumila

Name edit

Quercus pumila Walter, 1788

Synonyms edit

  • Homotypic
    • Quercus phellos var. pumila (Walter) Michx., Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 197 (1803).
    • Quercus cinerea var. pumila (Walter) M.A.Curtis, Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. N. Carolina 3: 37 (1860).
  • Heterotypic
    • Quercus phellos var. sericea Aiton, Hort. Kew. 3: 354 (1789).
    • Quercus sericea (Aiton) Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 4: 424 (1805).
    • Quercus cinerea var. nana A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 74 (1864).
    • Quercus pumila var. sericea (Aiton) Engelm., Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 3: 384 (1876).
    • Cyclobalanopsis sericea (Aiton) Schottky, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 47: 656 (1912).
    • Quercus elliottii Wilbur, Rhodora 104: 138 (2002).

Homonyms edit

Distribution edit

Native distribution areas:
 
Quercus pumila
  • Continental: Northern America
    • Regional: Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References edit

Primary references edit

  • Walter, T. 1788. Flora Caroliniana, secundum Systema vegetabilium Linnæi digesta, characteres essentiales naturalesve et differentias veras exhibens; cum emendationibus numerosis, descriptionum antea evulgatarum adumbrationes stirpium plus mille continens, necnon generibus novis non paucis, speciebus plurimis novisq. ornata. viii+263 pp., John Fraser, London. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.9458 Reference page. : 234.

Additional references edit

  • Ward, D.B. (2007). Scientific note: Quercus sinuata Walter - the hybrid of Q. falcata and Q. phellos - rediscovered and neotypified Castanea 72: 177-181.

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Vernacular names edit

English: running oak, Runner Oak
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