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Also known as the beech genus

bitki cinsi

OverviewAI-generated

Fagus is a genus of plants within the family Fagaceae. It belongs to the kingdom Plantae, phylum Tracheophyta, class Magnoliopsida, and order Fagales. The scientific name is Fagus L. Common names include chestnut.

The genus has been introduced to Ireland. Specimens are held by institutions including UCMP, USNM, FMNH, and IBUNAM. Records exist in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Scientific literature references the genus, with 2,773 other encyclopedia articles citing it. There are 2,074 PubMed entries and 1,635,025 occurrence records. iDigBio contains 616 records and 329 media items.

Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, PubMed, Gbif Occ, Plants of the World, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

Fagus

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderFagales
  5. FamilyFagaceae
Native toAlabama, Albania, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Connecticut, Corse
Observations recorded1,635,025

Common Name: chestnut

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
616
With media
329
Family
Fagaceae
Collections
UCMP, USNM, FMNH, IBUNAM
Recorded in
United States, Canada, Mexico

Research

2,074 papers

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Subclass of
tree
Image
Ricci o capsule di faggio.JPG
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topic's main category
Category:Fagus
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Fagus
taxon name
Fagus
taxon common name
bukev
taxonomic type
Fagus sylvatica
this taxon is source of
beech wood
different from
beach
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Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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