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| Quercus chartacea | |
| Author | Trel. 1924 Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20:
61 1924. Diagnosis here |
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| Local names | |
| Range | Mexico
(Oaxaca, Chiapas) ; |
| Growth habit | tree;
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| Leaves | 12-14
x 4-9 cm; evergreen; elliptic, oboval or broadly lanceolate; apex obtuse
or acute, sometimes emarginate; margin entire or sinuate dentate, with
callous teeth; green and smooth above; brownish tomentose beneath; |
| Flowers |
male catkin 3 cm, rusty whoolly; anthers rounded, hairless; |
| Fruits | acorn
ovoid on a scaly peduncle, glabescent, 2-4 cm long; scaly, brown, tomentose
cup covering 1/2 of nut; |
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Bark, twigs and |
twig 3 mm thick, stellate whoolly tomentose, with white lenticels; bud ovoid, 3 mm long, glabrescent, often with silky stipules; |
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| Miscellaneous | --
A. Camus : tome 2, p. 611, n° 230; -- 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... For Zavala-Chavez, 2003, it is a variety of Q.obtusata. |
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