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Quercus liebmannii | |
Author | Oerst. ex Trel. 1924 Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 66 |
Synonyms | poculifer Trel. 1924 liebmannii f. brevipes Trel. 1924 |
Local names | |
Range | Mexico (Oaxaca, Puebla, Guerrero); 1000 to 2500 m; |
Growth habit | reaches 10 m tall; |
Leaves | 9-25 x 4-16 cm; deciduous; leathery; oboval to oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic; apex rounded or blunt; base narrowed, rounded or sometimes cordate; young leaves pinkish-yellow tomentose; mature leaves adaxially green, lustrous, hairless or with some stellate hairs along midrib and at the base of the blade; abaxially with persistent, dense, whitish tomentum made of fasciate and glandular hairs, except on primary veins; margin not revolute, wavy, sinuate-dentate, with 7-13 pairs of short mucronate teeth. 10-16 vein pairs, prominent beneath; petiole 4-15 mm long, glabrescent. |
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Fruits | acorn 1.5-3 cm long, ovoid, silky at apex; singly or clustered, on 2-8 cm long stalk; cup halfround enclosing 1/3 of nut, with greyish pubescent scales; maturing first year; free cotyledons; |
Bark, twigs and |
bark dark, fissured; twin slender, hairless, somewhat pinkish, with numerous pale lenticels; bud 2-4 mm long, pale brown, pubescent at first, becoming glabrous, with ciliate scales; deciduous stipules; |
Hardiness zone, habitat | zone 8-9; withstands -13° C; |
Miscellaneous | -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section
Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae; -- For Zavala-Chavez, 2003, it is a subspecies of Q. magnoliifolia. |
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