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Quercus cerris, the Turkey oak or Austrian oak, [3] [4] is an oak native to south-eastern Europe and Asia Minor.It is the type species of Quercus sect. Cerris, a section of the genus characterised by shoot buds surrounded by soft bristles, bristle-tipped leaf lobes, and acorns that usually mature in 18 months.
Like all species of Quercus, those of subgenus Cerris are trees or shrubs with acorn-like fruit in which a cup covers at least the base of the nut.Members of subgenus Cerris are distinguished from members of subgenus Quercus by few morphological features, their separation being largely determined by molecular phylogenetic evidence.
The genus Quercus contains about 500 known species, plus about 180 hybrids between them. [1] The genus, as is the case with many large genera, is divided into subgenera and sections. Traditionally, the genus Quercus was divided into the two subgenera Cyclobalanopsis, the ring-cupped oaks, and Quercus, which included
Section Quercus – white oaks from North America and Eurasia; Subgenus Cerris Oerst. – the Old World clade (or mid-latitude clade), exclusively native to Eurasia Section Cyclobalanopsis Oerst. – cycle-cup oaks of East Asia; Section Cerris Dumort. – cerris oaks of subtropical and temperate Eurasia and North Africa
Quercus suber is a species of the section Cerris to which, for example, the following species also belong: Valonia oak (Quercus macrolepis) Turkey oak (Quercus cerris) Quercus × crenata; Macedonian oak (Quercus trojana) Characteristic for the section are the hairless pericarp and the usually two-year ripening time of the fruits. The cork oak ...
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 .
Quercus laevis, native to the southeastern United States Index of plants with the same common name This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
Quercus cerris, Turkey Oak; Quercus petraea, Sessile ... an encyclopedia of characteristics for around 200 tree species native to the United States published by the ...