| Quercus x neomairei | |
| Author | A.Camus 1937 Rivièra Sci. 24: 28 |
| Synonyms |
faginea
x pyrenaica |
| Local names | |
| Range | Northern Spain; Portugal; Morocco; |
| Growth habit | shrub to 6 m; |
| Leaves | 5-12 x 1.5-6 cm, almost evergreen, leathery; both sides densely tomentose when young; lustrous green above with a few stellate hairs, glabrescent; yellowish grey tomentose beneath, made of fasciate and simple hairs; base attenuate or sometimes rounded, often asymmetrical; margin with both lobes and sinuses narrow; lobes often lobulate; 7-9 parallel vein pairs, with sinusal veins near base; petiole tomentose, pinkish, 7-16 mm long; |
| Flowers | |
| Fruits | fruit stalkless; cup half-round with numerous, appressed, densely yellowish tomentose scales; |
|
Bark, twigs and |
bark greyish brown; young branchlet more or less tomentose; bud 2-4 mm, with ciliate at margin, pinkish scales becoming glabrous; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | |
| Miscellaneous | -- The plant named
"x neomairei" by A. Camus is in fact the hybrid between
Q. faginea subsp broteroi and Q. pyrenaica; the species
described above is the hybrid between Q. faginea subsp faginea
and Q. pyrenaica, so it must be named Q x numantina
(on account of the illegitimacy of the name 'welwitschii'); |
| Subspecies and varieties |
Q. numantina nothosubsp discreta
F.M. Vazquez 2015 |
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