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Taxon: Quercus ellipsoidalis E. J. Hill

Genus: Quercus
Family: Fagaceae subfamily: Fagoideae.
Nomen number: 317754
Place of publication: Bot. Gaz. 27:204, t. 2, 3. 1899
Name verified on: 17-Nov-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 28-Apr-2000
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 2 in National Plant Germplasm System.


Common names:

  • Hill's oak   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • jack oak   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • northern pin oak   (Source: Trees US ) – English

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  • Materials: wood   (fide AH 519)
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Distributional range:

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

References:

  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. [possibly better included in Q. coccinea].
  • Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales.
  • Hipp, A. L. & J. A. Weber. 2008. Taxonomy of Hill's oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis: Fagaceae): evidence from AFLP data. Syst. Bot. 33:148–158.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
  • McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
  • Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
  • Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
  • Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. [= Q. coccinea Muenchh.].
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Check other web resources for Quercus ellipsoidalis E. J. Hill:

  • 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 ellipsoidalis 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.

Check other web resources for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google 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?317754 (18 May 2013)

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