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Quercus flocculenta | |
Author |
C.H.Muller 1936 J. Arnold Arbor. 17: 172 Diagnosis here |
Synonyms | flocculenta f. incisa C.H.Mull.1936 flocculenta f. oblongifolia C.H.Mull. 1936 flocculenta var. typica A.Camus 1939, nom. inval. |
Local names | |
Range | Mexico (Nuevo Leon) ; 2300-2800 m; |
Growth habit | shrub or small
tree.. |
Leaves | 3-7 cm long, 1-2 cm wide; deciduous; sub-leathery; ovate-lanceolate or sometimes oblong; most often acute at apex, bristle-tipped; base rounded or broadly cuneate; margin plane, thick, entire near base, with 1-3 bristle-tipped teeth near apex; dark green, shiny above, almost glabrous (scattered stellate hairs along midvein and near base); underneath with easily removed, dense, greyish, stellate tomentum, masking a minutely papillose epidermis; 8-10 vein pairs, forked and anastomosing, unconspicuous above and prominent beneath; petiole 4-7 mm long, slender (0.5 mm thick), with persistent greyish tomentum. |
Flowers | male catkins 3 cm long, loose, slightly stellate pubescent; pistillate inflorescence 1-2 flowered on a 5-10 mm long peduncle, 1-2 mm thick, with stellate hairs; |
Fruits | acorn 1-2 cm long, ovoid, singly or paired, enclosed 1/3 in the cup; cup obconical with slightly pubescent scales, sometimes glabrous; maturing first year, from August to October; |
Bark, twigs and |
bark black, furrowed; slender twigs 1-2 mm thick, sulcate, whitish stellate pubescent at first, then glabrescent; very small bud (1.5-2 mm long), pointed, somewhat hairy; stipules pubescentes, persistent around terminal bud but soon hairless; |
Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy zone 7; |
Miscellaneous | --
A. Camus : n°372; -- Sub-genus Quercus, section Lobatae, Series Erythromexicanae, Group Saltillenses; -- Threatened (IUCN Red List Category : EN) |
Subspecies and varieties |
-- f. incisa : differs
from the type in having deeply cut leaves with aristate lobes, margin
revolute, crisped. -- f. oblongifolia ; differs from the type in the oblong leaves 2-6 cm long, less pubescent abaxially. |
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