| Quercus magnoliifolia | |
| Author |
Née 1801 Anales Ci. Nat. 3: 268 Diagnosis here |
| Synonyms | circinata Née 1801 (A.
Camus = n° 236) erubescens Trel. 1934 flava Née ex Spreng. 1801 haematophlebia Trel. 1924 Diagnosis here lutea Née 1801 magnoliifolia var. lutea (Née) A.DC 1864 macrophylla Née 1801 nudinervis Liebm. 1854 (Camus = n° 235) Diagnosis here neoplatyphylla A.Camus 1942 platyphylla E.F.Warb. 1939, nom. illeg rubescens Trel. 1934 tepicana Trel. 1924 Diagnosis here |
| Local names | encino
bermejo; encino amarillo; encino napis; |
| Range | Mexico (Michoacan,
Oaxaca, Colima, Guerrero, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Nayarit, Sinaloa)
; 1600-2900 m ; |
| Growth habit | 5-15 m tall,
trunk to 15-50 cm in diameter; |
| Leaves | 8-28 x 5-18
cm; deciduous; oboval or broadly elliptic; thin, flat, pliable; apex rounded
or obtuse ; base variable ; margin thick, slightly rolled under, crenate-dentate
with 8-14 pairs of short mucronate teeth; lustrous green above, hairless
except stellate trichomes and glandular hairs at the base of midrib, with
veins impressed; minutely reticulate beneath, with yellow tomentum made
of glandular hairs and short, sessile, stellate ones, with veins prominent;
11-20 rather straight vein pairs; épidermis papillose and bullate;
petiole 0.3-1 cm long, dark red, slightly pubescent; |
| Flowers | in February; staminate catkins several-flowered; pistillate flowers 1 to 3 or more on a 5-15 mm long peduncle; |
| Fruits | acorn 0.8-1.7 cm long, ovoid; 2/3 enclosed by cup; cup 1.4-2 cm in diameter, with large, narrow tomentose scales; maturing in 1 year in June-July; nut sweet; |
|
Bark, twigs and |
bark
fissured into plates; twig 2-4 mm thick, coffee-coloured, glabrous or
glabrescent with stellate and short glandular hairs, with pale yellow
lenticels; buds ovoid, obtuse, pubescent at margin, 3-5 mm long; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | not
hardy; prefers dry places; |
| Miscellaneous | --
A. Camus : tome 2, p. 625, n° 237 ; -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Subsection Leucomexicanae; -- Also spelled "magnoliaefolia" ; |
| Subspecies and varieties |
--
Closely related species (if not indentical ?) = Q.poculifer
Trel. 1924 (Camus n° 241) Diagnosis here
-- For S. Valencia-A., it is the synonym of Q.liebmannii, taxon often considered as identical to Q.obtusata. |
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