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Quercus crispifolia | |
Author | Trel. 1924 Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20:
147 Diagnosis here |
Synonyms | amphioxys Trel. 1924 Diagnosis here incrassata Trel. 1924 Diagnosis here |
Local names | |
Range | Mexico (Chiapas),
South Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras (?), Colombia; |
Growth habit | 10-15 m; |
Leaves | 10-20 m x 3-6 ; 3-4 times longer than wide; stiff, leathery; lanceolate to oblanceolate; apex acuminate to attenuate, remotely aristate; base cuneate or narrowly rounded, seldom cordate; margin entire; adaxially lustrous, hairless or with some stellate hairs at base of midrib; axil tufts abaxially; 13-17 vein pairs; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, becoming hairless; |
Flowers | |
Fruits | acorn 2-3 cm long, 2-2.5 cm wide, broadly ovoid; brown, silky pubescent at first, becoming glabrous; cup shallow, enclosing only base of nut ; maturing in 2 years; |
Bark, twigs and |
twigs 1-3 mm thick, stellate tawny tomentose at first, soon glabrous, grey or reddish-brown, with not very evident lenticels; buds 5-6 mm long, oblong, acute, hairless, with hairy scales; |
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Miscellaneous | --
A. Camus : n° 325; -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section Lobatae, Series Erythromexicanae; |
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