Contains 3 genera and 46 accepted taxa overall.
This family is completely databased for all specimens.
Characteristics
FAGACEAE
Dicot
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Classification
FAGALES
FAGACEAE
Identification Key
1. Branches terminating in clustered or crowded buds; male inflorescence a pendent ament; fruit an acorn, circular in cross-section, subtended by a scaly or tuberculate cup
1. Branches with a solitary terminal bud, adjacent buds not crowded; male inflorescence a pedunculate heads or a spike of glomerulate clustuers; fruit one or few angular to rounded-angular nuts enclosed in a prickly or scaly-bristly cupule
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2. Buds ovoid, rounded to bluntly acute at the tip; leaf blade teeth awned to acuminate; male inflorescence a spike of glomerulate clusters; cupule spines 5-20 mm long; nut rounded-angular
2. Buds elongate-fusiform, narrowly acute at the tip; leaf blade teeth acute; male inflorescence a pedunculate head; cupule scaly bristles curved, 1-5 mm long; nut triangular