Quercus phillyreoidesA.Gray

WFO wfo-0000292512 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Quercus phillyreoides, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-09 / obs. 66917152
Quercus phillyreoides, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67165602
Quercus phillyreoides, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. c Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66916802
Quercus phillyreoides, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. d Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56639512
Quercus phillyreoides, photographed by harum.koh
fig. e harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 8096615
Quercus phillyreoides, photographed by harum.koh
fig. f harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 7977945
Quercus phillyreoides, photographed by harum.koh
fig. g harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3279065
Quercus phillyreoides, photographed by harum.koh
fig. h harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3266374

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Quercus phillyreoides is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Nansei-shoto China South-CentralChina SoutheastJapan Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Quercus phillyreoides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Nansei-shoto NNS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Maesa singuliflora H.Lév.
  • Quercus fokienensis Nakai
  • Quercus fooningensis Hu & Cheng
  • Quercus ilex var. phillyreoides (A.Gray) Franch.
  • Quercus lichuanensis W.C.Cheng
  • Quercus myricifolia Hu & Cheng
  • Quercus phillyreoides f. crispa (Matsum.) Kitam. & T.Horik.
  • Quercus phillyreoides f. wrightii (Nakai) Kitam. & T.Horik.
  • Quercus phillyreoides subsp. fokiensis (Nakai) Menitsky
  • Quercus phillyreoides var. crispa Matsum.
  • Quercus phillyreoides var. sinensis Schottky
  • Quercus phillyreoides var. subcrispa Makino
  • Quercus phillyreoides var. wrightii (Nakai) Menitsky
  • Quercus pillyraeoides A.Gray
  • Quercus singuliflora (H.Lév.) A.Camus
  • Quercus tinfanensis A.Camus
  • Quercus wrightii Nakai

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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