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Taxon: Quercus agrifolia Née

Genus: Quercus
Family: Fagaceae subfamily: Fagoideae.
Nomen number: 30636
Place of publication: Anales Ci. Nat. 3:271. 1801
Name verified on: 07-Jun-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 07-Jun-1995
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.


Common names:

  • California live oak   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  • coast live oak   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • kariforunia-raibu-ōku   (Source: Pl Names ) – Japanese Rōmaji
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  • Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Krussmann)
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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Abrams, L. 1944. Illustrated flora of the Pacific states.
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  • Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales.
  • Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California. [with two varieties].
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with three varieties].
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
  • Pavlik, B. M. et al. 1991. Oaks of California. 25–27.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  • Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.
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Check other web resources for Quercus agrifolia Née:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Quercus agrifolia cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

  • Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?30636 (20 May 2013)

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