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Fagaceae

Fagus

Fagus crenata Blume

First published in Mus. Bot. 1: 307 (1851)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Japan. It is a tree and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution
Synonyms
Publications
Other data

Native to:

Japan

Homotypic Synonyms

Fagus ferruginea Siebold in Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 12: 25 (1830), no diagnostic descr.
Fagus sieboldii Endl. ex A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 118 (1864)
Fagus sylvatica var. sieboldii (Endl. ex A.DC.) Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, sér. 3, 31: 101 (1886)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Fagus asiatica H.J.P.Winkl. in Pfl.-Geogr. Stud. Buchwald.: 5 (1901)
Fagus crenata var. grandifolia Nakai in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 42: 17 (1928)
Fagus crenata var. procera Blume in Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 51 (1891)
Fagus crenata var. undulata Blume in Mus. Bot. 1: 307 (1851)
Fagus ferruginea f. dentata Ettingsh. in Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 61: 12, 16 (1894)
Fagus ferruginea f. parvifolia Ettingsh. in Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 61: 12, 16 (1894)
Fagus ferruginea f. rosthornii Ettingsh. in Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 61: 12, 16 (1894)
Fagus japonica var. undulata (Blume) Koehne in Deut. Dendrol.: 121 (1893)
Fagus sieboldii var. procera (Blume) A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 118 (1864)
Fagus sieboldii var. undulata (Blume) A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 118 (1864)
Fagus winkleriana Koidz. in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 30: 95 (1916)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (1998). World Checklist and Bibliography of Fagales: 1-408. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (eds.) (2006). Flora of Japan IIa: 1-550. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Living Collection Database
- Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images