A personal Fagaceae, or even fagaceae, is characterized by replacement leaves with pinnate venation, flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of nuts, one to seven inside a shell or even even spinous shell that can or might not enclose the nut. A right-known class action of this personal is the oaks, genus Quercus, the fruit of which is known as an acorn. A shell of a acorn within virtually all oaks sole forms a cup where the nut sits.

Genera
Castanea - Chestnuts; eight species, northward moderate east Asia, sou'west Asia, sou'-east Europe, eastern Northward America Castanopsis - about 125-130 metal money, sou'-east Asia Chrysolepis - Golden chinkapin; deuce mintage, american USA Colombobalanus - one mintage C. excelsa, northern South United states, typically involved within Trigonobalanus Fagus - Beeches; 10 coinage, to the Northward moderate east Asia, south-west Asia, Europe, eastern North America Formanodendron - one coinage F. doichangensis, south-east Asia, typically involved within Trigonobalanus Lithocarpus - Tanoaks or Stof these oaks; astir 330-340 coinage, near 1 within warmly moderate to tropical Asia, a one (L. densiflorus) inside California and southwest Oregon Nothofagus - Southern beeches; about 35 mintage, southern South America, Just released Zealand, sou'-east Australia, Future Caledonia, Future Guinea Quercus - Oaks; about D metal money, far flung Northern Hemisphere, crossing the equator in Indonesia Trigonobalanus - one coinage T. verticillata, tropical south-east Asia (three coinage whenever Colombobalanus & Formanodendron involved)

A genus Nothofagus is for instance set within the separate personal, Nothofagaceae.