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Quercus aucheri | |
Author | Jaubert & Spach 1842 Ill. Pl. Orient. 1: 113 1843. |
Synonyms | coccifera subsp aucheri (Jaub.&Spach) K.I.Christensen 2004 |
Local names | boz-pirnal |
Range | Greece (Eastern Aegean islands); Turkey (Southwestern Anatolia); 0 to 450 m; |
Growth habit | often less than 3 m; reaches 10 m tall; |
Leaves | 2.5-3.5 cm x 1.2-1.8, evergreen, leathery; subelliptic or ovate-elliptic; resemble those of Q. coccifera; glabrous above or sometimes slightly tomentose; pale gray, densely stellate tomentose beneath; margin entire or dentate (entire leaves on old and/or short shoots, serrate leaves on young, long, sterile shoots); apex rounded to apiculate; base round to subcordate; 5-9 vein pairs, unconspicuous above; petiole absent or very short (to 0.6 cm), grey tomentose; |
Flowers | |
Fruits | acorn 1.8-2.2 cm, ovate, with apex mucronate, acute or sometimes flattened; maturing second year; cup cyathiform 1.8-2.5 cm in diameter, sessile or with thick and very short peduncle (sometimes absent); scales pubescent, ovate, imbricate, free at the short tip; nut 1/23 enclosed by cup; germination from the base; |
Bark, twigs and |
twigs velvety at first, glabrescent, somewhat pendulous, yellowish brown; bud ovoid, round at apex, pale reddish-brown, puberulent, 2 mm long; |
Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy zone 8; occurs on calcareous slopes; |
Miscellaneous | -- A.Camus : tome
1, p. 465, n° 109 (with Q. rigida); -- Sub-genus Cerris, Section Ilex; -- Differs from Q. coccifera in having pubescent leaves et wider cupule (1-2 cm for Q. coccifera); -- Near threatened; |
Subspecies and varieties |
-- Q. bulgurluensis A.Camus 1934 |
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