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OverviewAI-generated
Quercus coccifera is a species of evergreen plant within the family Fagaceae. It belongs to the order Fagales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta in the kingdom Plantae. The species is also known by the common names Garric, Kermes Oak, Coscoja, and Abaritz, with Quercus calliprinos listed as a synonym. Its IUCN conservation status is Least Concern.
The plant is native to Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, and Libya. Records from iDigBio indicate presence in the United States, Romania, Turkey, Greece, and Croatia, with collections held by institutions including DAV, US, MOR, UCR, and QUE. A total of 118,594 occurrences have been documented in GBIF data.
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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFagales
- FamilyFagaceae
Common Name: kermes oak
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,000
- With media
- 858
- Family
- Fagaceae
- Collections
- DAV, US, MOR, UCR, QUE, CDA
- Recorded in
- United States, Romania, Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Spain, France, Libya
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Encyclopedic overview
Quercus coccifera, commonly known as kermes oak, holly oak, or Palestine oak, is an evergreen oak shrub or tree in section Ilex of the genus. It has many synonyms, including Quercus calliprinos. It is native to the Mediterranean region and Northern African Maghreb, south to north from Morocco to France and west to east from Portugal to Cyprus and Turkey, crossing Spain, Italy, Libya, the Balkans, and Greece, including Crete. The Kermes oak was historically important as the food plant of Kermes scale insects, from which a red dye called crimson was obtained. The etymology of the specific name coccifera is related to the production of red cochineal (crimson) dye and derived from Latin coccum which was from Greek κόκκος, the kermes insect. The Latin -fera means 'bearer'.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quercus coccifera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.