| Quercus substenocarpa | |
| Author |
Trel. 1924 Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 52 Diagnosis here |
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| Range | Mexico in the Sierra Madre Oriental (San Luis Potosi) ; |
| Growth habit | more than 3 metres tall; |
| Leaves | 16-20
x 6-7 cm; deciduous; oboval; apex attenuate, sometimes retuse, mucronate;
base rounded or narrowly cordate; hairless above; dull, soon glabrous,
glaucous beneath; margin entire or crenate-dentate near apex; |
| Flowers | |
| Fruits | acorn
4 cm long, 2 cm in diameter, oblong, sub-elliptic; solidary at the end
of a 2-3 cm long, glabrous peduncle; enclosed 1/3 by scaly cup 2.5-3 cm
in diameter; |
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Bark, twigs and |
twig 4 mm thick, sulcate, hairless, with prominent lenticels; bud ovoid 4 mm long, puberulent; persistent stipules; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | not hardy; |
| Miscellaneous | -- A. Camus : tome 2, p. 534,
n° 195; -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae; -- For today's Mexican Authors (Susana Valencia-Avalos, 2004) it is a synonym of Q.germana. |
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