- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›beeches, oaks, walnuts, and allies
- ›beech family
- ›Quercus
- ›Cerris

Ilex oaks
Ilex
Quercus subgenus Cerris is one of the two subgenera into which the genus Quercus was divided in a 2017 classification (the other being subgenus Quercus). It contains about 140 species divided among three sections. It may be called the Old World clade or the mid-latitude clade; all species are native to Eurasia and North Africa.
40 branches of this group, most-observed first

evergreen oak
complexQuercus ilex

Coccifera
subsectionCoccifera

Banj
speciesQuercus leucotrichophora

Ubame Oak
speciesQuercus phillyreoides

kharsu
speciesQuercus semecarpifolia

Quercus spinosa
speciesQuercus spinosa

Golden Oak
speciesQuercus alnifolia

Quercus tatakaensis
speciesQuercus tatakaensis

Taroko Oak
speciesQuercus tarokoensis

Quercus × eborense
hybridQuercus × eborense

Auzende's Oak
hybridQuercus × auzendei

Moru Oak
speciesQuercus floribunda

Hengduan Mountain Oak
speciesQuercus aquifolioides

Rianj Oak
speciesQuercus lanata

Golden Guavaleaf Oak
speciesQuercus guyavifolia

Chinese Dwarf Oak
speciesQuercus monimotricha

Balut Oak
speciesQuercus baloot

Quercus longispica
speciesQuercus longispica

Quercus × almeidae
hybridQuercus × almeidae

Quercus engleriana
speciesQuercus engleriana

Quercus dolicholepis
speciesQuercus dolicholepis

Quercus franchetii
speciesQuercus franchetii

Quercus senescens
speciesQuercus senescens

Quercus kingiana
speciesQuercus kingiana

Quercus pseudosetulosa
speciesQuercus pseudosetulosa

Quercus rehderiana
speciesQuercus rehderiana

Quercus cocciferoides
speciesQuercus cocciferoides

Quercus baronii
speciesQuercus baronii

Yellowback Oak
speciesQuercus pannosa

Quercus acrodonta
speciesQuercus acrodonta

Quercus oxyphylla
speciesQuercus oxyphylla

Yiwu Oak
speciesQuercus yiwuensis

Quercus × campitica
hybridQuercus × campitica

Quercus setulosa
speciesQuercus setulosa
Quercus lodicosa
speciesQuercus lodicosa
Quercus zhekunii
speciesQuercus zhekunii
Bawangling Oak
speciesQuercus bawanglingensis
Quercus marlipoensis
speciesQuercus marlipoensis
Quercus gilliana
speciesQuercus gilliana
Quercus fimbriata
speciesQuercus fimbriata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the old herbals & bestiaries

Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.42

On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.1139

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.239

History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.21

History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.20

History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.36

Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.101

Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.362
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Ilex in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 861032.