| Quercus buckleyi | |
| Author | Nixon & Dorr 1985 Taxon 34: 225 1985. |
| Synonyms | texana Young
1873, nom. illeg. |
| Local names | Buckley’s
oak; Texas red oak; Texas oak; |
| Range | Texas (Edwards
Plateau), Oklahoma; 150 -500 m; area much more limited than for the neighbouring
Q. shumardii; |
| Growth habit | reaches 15 m
tall; |
| Leaves | 5-10 x 5-11
cm; broadly elliptic to obovate or almost orbicular; apex acute to acuminate,
; base cuneate, often asymmetrical; margin with 5-9 deep, triangular lobes;
sinuses much more deep and rounded than those of Q.shumardii;
dark green, hairless, bright above;
paler beneath with sometimes rusty axil tufts; 3-5 vein pairs raised on
both surfaces; petiole 2-4 cm, glabrous; |
| Flowers | in spring; |
| Fruits | acorn broadly
ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, seldom oblong,1.2-1.8 cm long, 0.8-1.4 cm
wide, with ringed stylopodium; subsessile; usually not striate; enclosed
1/3 or 1/2 by the cup; cup goblet- to cup-shaped with pointed, appressed,
glabrous, sometimes tuberculate scales at base of cup; |
|
Bark, twigs and |
bark
grey and smooth, becoming dark and furrowed; branchlet brown, sometimes
yellow grey, glabrous, 1.5-3 mm thick; buds reddish brown, ovoid to spindle-shaped,
3-7 mm long, with apical scales ciliate; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy
zone 6; requires dry and calcareous soils; |
| Miscellaneous | --
A. Camus n° 295; -- Sub-genus Quercus, section Lobatae, Series Coccineae; -- Closely related to Q.shumardii -- This species was erroneously named Q.texana, Q.rubra var. texana, Q.shumardii var. texana, while the true Q.texana is Q.nuttallii; |
| Subspecies and varieties |
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var. paludosa Sarg. 1910 --- hybridizes with Q.marilandica (= Q.x hastingsii) |
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