| Quercus cualensis | |
| Author | L.M.Gonzalez 2003 Brittonia 55: 49 |
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| Local names | |
| Range | Mexico (endemic to Jalisco); 1800-2300 m; |
| Growth habit | reaches 8-12 m tall; more often shrubby; |
| Leaves | 3-10 cm long, 1-2 cm wide; evergreen; narrowly lanceolate or elliptic; apex pointed, mucronate; base rounded or slightly cuneate; margin entire; adaxially glabrous; pale beneath, hairless or sometimes with axillary tufts; 10-25 unconspicuous vein pairs; petiole 0.5 cm long; |
| Flowers | |
| Fruits | acorn 1.5 cm long, ovoid, light brown, 1 or 2 together on a short stalk; cup 1-2 cm in diameter, 0.4-0.7 cm high, enclosing 1/4 to 1/3 of the nut, with small appressed, greyish, ciliate scales; maturing in 2 years; |
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Bark, twigs and |
bark grey, fissured; twig slender with numerous, pale lenticels; very small rounded bud, with ciliate scales; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | dry pine-oak forest |
| Miscellaneous | -- Sub-genus Quercus, section
Lobatae, Eryhtomexicanae; -- Threatened (IUCN Red List Category : EN) : it currently occupies approximately 125 km2 -- Closed to Q. salicifolia; |
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| Pictures |
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