Fagus Linnaeus 1753 (beech)

Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Fagaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919

See also Brown 1959, Knowlton 1899, Liu et al. 1996 and Mabberley 2000

Sister taxa: Amentogerdiopollenites, Amplobalanus, Antiquacupula, Carpinites, Castanea, Castaneophyllum, Castanopsis, Castanoxylon, Cupuliferoipollenites, Dryobalanus, Fagophyllum, Fagopsis, Fagoxylon, Galla, Lithocarpus, Nephelites, Parafagus, Parvobalanus, Pasania, Pasianopsis, Protofagacea, Pseudofagus, Quercinium, Querciphyllum, Quercophyllum, Quercoxylon, Quercus

Subtaxa: Fagus americana Fagus antipofii Fagus cretacea Fagus deucalionis Fagus dicksoni Fagus engleriana Fagus feroniae Fagus hitchcockii Fagus integrifolia Fagus lambertensis Fagus longifolia Fagus macrophylla Fagus orbiculata Fagus papyracea Fagus polycladus Fagus protonucifera Fagus pseudoferruginea Fagus sieboldii Fagus subferruginea

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), France (3), Japan (5)

• Pliocene of Germany (5), Japan (2), Portugal (2)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Indiana)

• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Germany (1), Japan (2)

• Miocene of China (4), Germany (44), Japan (7), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), United States (6: Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia)

• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (2)

• Oligocene of Argentina (3), Germany (9), Puerto Rico (1), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Oregon)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Canada (3: British Columbia), China (3), United States (4: Colorado, Wyoming)

• Tertiary of Japan (2)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: Kansas)

Total: 130 collections including 160 occurrences

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