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Selected additions or updates to the OAKNAMES database are listed here.
October 2025
Jablonski, Eike J. and Russell, Ryan (2025), New and Lesser-Known Oak Cultivars. Int. Oaks 39: 107-112.
Vila-Viçosa, C., Frias, I. & Vázquez, F. (2024) Finding the last missing white oak hybrid from the Iberian Peninsula (Fagaceae, Quercus, sect. Quercus). Phytotaxa 641 (3): 183–190. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.641.3.1
April 2024
Coombes, Allen J. and Vázquez, Francisco M. (2024). Quercus ×hispanica Lam. Resurrected. Int. Oaks 35:20.
Jablonski, Eike J. and Russell, Ryan (2024), New and Lesser-Known Oak Cultivars, Three Lost Cultivars and a List of Cultivar Trademarks. Int. Oaks 35: 121-130.
Russell, Ryan and Jablonski, Eike J. (2023). New and Lesser-Known Oak Cultivars 2021-2022. Int. Oaks 34: 29-38.
Coombes, Allen J. and Lamant, Thierry (2023). Quercus ×sternbergii (Sternberg's Oak): a New US Hybrid. Int. Oaks 34: 39-44
Mineaki Aizawa, Kaya Maekawa, Hiroko Mochizuki and Kazuya Iizuka (2021). Taxonomic Revision of Quercus serrata subsp. mongolicoides. Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 72 (2): 113–123.
González-Villarreal, Luz María (2018). Dos nuevas especies de encinos (Quercus: Fagaceae), adicionales para la Flora de Jalisco y Áreas Colindantes en el Occidente de México. Ibugana Vol. 9: 47-71.
January - March 2023
Vereecke, Patrick (2022). Some Eastern European Oak Hybrids and Their Names. Int. Oaks 33: 51-62.
Fortgens, Gert & Cameron, Roderick (2022). Quercus ×libanerris ‘Tromper’: An Error Disinterred. Int. Oaks 33: 45-50.
Russell, Ryan, Jablonski, Eike J. and Coombes, Allen J. (2021). New and Lesser-Known Oak Cultivars 2020. Int. Oaks 32: 113-124.
Van Meulder, Jef (2014). Nieuwe eikencultivars uit Arboretum Bokrijk. Belgische Dendrologie Belge pp. 9-16
Binh, H. T. & al. (2021). Quercus ngochoaensis (Fagaceae), a new species from Ba Vi National Park, northern, Vietnam. Phytotaxa Vol. 516 No. 3: 283-288
Binh, H. T. & Ngoc, N. V. (2022). Quercus mangdenensis, a new species of Quercus (Fagaceae) from Kon Tum Province, Vietnam. PhytoKeys 215: 73-79. See also https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.215.93684
Ngoc, H.T.Binh & T.S.Hoang (2022). A new species of Quercus genus (Fagaceae) from Son Tra Peninsula, Central Vietnam. PhytoKeys 206: 61-73. See also https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.206.85635
July 2020
Coombes, Allen J. and Valencia-A, Susanna. 2020. Mexican Oaks, Nomenclatural Notes. International Oaks, No. 31, pages 15–20. See also https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.428.2.2
Li, Qiansheng, Gu, Mengmeng and Deng, Min. 2020. Quercus pseudosetulosa Q. S. Li & T. Y. Tu, A New Oak from China. International Oaks, No. 31, pages 21–26. See also DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.373.4.2
April 2018
Thomas Denk, Guido W. Grimm, Paul S. Manos, Min Deng, Andrew L. Hipp (2017). An updated infrageneric classification of the oaks: review of previous taxonomic schemes and synthesis of evolutionary patterns. bioRxiv 168146; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/168146
Vinagre, C & Gomes, Carlos & Vila-Viçosa, Carlos & Vázquez, Francisco Maria. (2014). Anotaciones a la diversidad del genero Quercus L. (Fagaceae) en la Estremadura portuguesa. Folia Botanica Extremadurensis. 95-97.
March 2018
Binh & al. (2018). Quercus trungkhanhensis (Fagaceae), a New Species from Cao Vit Gibbon Conservation Area, Cao Bang Province, northeastern Vietnam. Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 69 (1): 53–61 (2018)
Binh & al. (2018). A new species and two new records of Quercus (Fagaceae) from northern Vietnam. PhytoKeys 92: 1–15 (2018)
Binh HT, Ngoc NV, Tagane S, Toyama H, Mase K, Mitsuyuki C, Strijk JS, Suyama Y, Yahara T (2018). A taxonomic study of Quercus langbianensis complex based on morphology, and DNA barcodes of classic and next generation sequences. PhytoKeys 95: 37-70. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.95.21126
Cavender‐Bares, J. , González‐Rodríguez, A. , Eaton, D. A., Hipp, A. A., Beulke, A. and Manos, P. S. (2015). Phylogeny and biogeography of the American live oaks (Quercus subsection Virentes): a genomic and population genetics approach. Mol Ecol, 24: 3668-3687. doi:10.1111/mec.13269
Pérez Mojica, E. y S. Valencia-A. (2017). Estudio preliminar del género Quercus (Fagaceae) en Tamaulipas, México. Acta Botanica Mexicana 120: 59-111. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21829/abm120.2017.1264
Tashev, Alexander & Tsavkov, Evgeni (2017). Validation of the name Quercus protoroburoides (Fagaceae). Phytotaxa, [S.l.], v. 308, n. 2, p. 232–238, june 2017. ISSN 1179-3163. Available at: <https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.308.2.4>. Date accessed: 18 mar. 2018. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.308.2.4.
Valencia-Avalos, S & Flores Franco, Gabriel & Jiménez Ramírez, Jaime. (2015). A nomenclatural revision of Quercus acutifolia , Q. conspersa and Q. grahamii (Lobatae , Fagaceae). Phytotaxa. 218. 289. 10.11646/phytotaxa.218.3.7.
Valencia-Avalos, S & Coombes, A & Villasenor, JL. (2018). Quercus candicans (Fagaceae) is not a Quercus but a Roldana (Asteraceae). Phytotaxa, [S.l.], v. 333, n. 2, p. 251–258, jan. 2018. ISSN 1179-3163. Available at: <https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.333.2.9>. Date accessed: 07 mar. 2018. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.9.











