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| Quercus synthetica | |
| Author |
Trel. 1924 Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 151 Diagnosis here |
| Synonyms | synthetica var. crenatifolia Trel. 1924 |
| Local names | |
| Range | Mexico in the Sierra Madre Oriental (Veracruz, Huatusco) |
| Growth habit | very
small tree; |
| Leaves | 15-18 x 5-7 cm; deciduous; thick; oblanceolate; apex obtuse; base attenuate; margin entire, sometimes crenate-undulate, thick; hairless, shiny above; beneath paler, with axil tufts and sometimes hairs along midrib; 8-12 pairs of lateral veins parallel, raised underneath; some tertiary veins; petiole hairless 0.7-1 cm long; |
| Flowers | pistillate catkin 1.5-1.8 cm long, with one flower; |
| Fruits | acorn ellipsoid 3 cm long, tomentose at apex, with thick stigmas; solitary; enclosed at its base only by cup; cup small, round, with gibbous scales; maturing first year; |
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Bark, twigs and |
twig thin, hairless, brown, with rather pale prominent lenticels; big bud, rounded, glabrescent; |
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| Miscellaneous | --
A.Camus : tome 3, p. 152, n° 336; -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus; -- For today's Mexican Authors (Susana Valencia-A. 2004) it is a synonyms of Q.glaucescens. |
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