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Species Spotlight: Quercus orocantabrica Rivas Mart., Penas, T.E.Díaz & Llamas

By Website Editor | April 18, 2026
Quercus orocantabrica

Roderick Cameron and Carlos Vila-Viçosa give an account of this intriguing species from northwestern Iberia with a complex taxonomic and nomenclatural history.

A Fagaceae Species That Has Flummoxed Taxonomists

By Roderick Cameron | April 15, 2023
castnopsis_uraiana_inat2.jpeg

An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never heard of.

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Species Spotlight: Quercus orocantabrica Rivas Mart., Penas, T.E.Díaz & Llamas

By Website Editor | April 18, 2026
Quercus orocantabrica

Roderick Cameron and Carlos Vila-Viçosa give an account of this intriguing species from northwestern Iberia with a complex taxonomic and nomenclatural history.

A Fagaceae Species That Has Flummoxed Taxonomists

By Roderick Cameron | April 15, 2023
castnopsis_uraiana_inat2.jpeg

An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never heard of.