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Quercus charcasana | |
Author | Trel. ex A.Camus 1952 Chênes Texte 3: 216, 1269 1952 |
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Range | Mexico, en la
Sierra Madre Oriental (Charcas,San Luis Potosi) ; |
Growth habit | less than 3 m tall; |
Leaves | 3-4 cm mm X 1.2-1.5; deciduous; sublanceolate; apex acute aristate; base narrowly cordate, rounded; entire or asymmetrically toothed, with some rare short teeth; midrib raised both sides; 8 vein pairs, inconspicuous above; petiole 2-4 mm long; |
Flowers | pistillate ones with 3 hairy styles, perianth thick, stigmas recurved; |
Fruits | acorn almost entirely enclosed in cup, mucronate; |
Bark, twigs and |
twig thin (2-4 mm), slightly sulcate, with rather persistent greyish tomentum, with inconspicuous lenticels; |
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Miscellaneous | --
A. Camus : tome 3, n° 371; -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section Lobatae; -- For today's Mexican Authors (Susana Valencia-A., 2004), this species described by Trelease is not currently valid ; it may be a hybrid, or a morpholigical variety... |
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