| Quercus iltisii | |
| Author | L.M.Gonzalez 2003 Brittonia 55: 54 |
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| Range | Mexico (Jalisco, volcano Colima); 330-1550 m; |
| Growth habit | 10-20 m tall and more; |
| Leaves | 5-15 cm long, 1-4 wide; evergreen; lanceolate or narrowly oblong; apex acute, base rounded; margin entire, slightly wavy (only very yound leaves with some teeth); light green, hairless above; paler beneath with entangled trichomes and glandular hairs densely along veins; 15-30 vein pairs; petiole 0.5 cm long; |
| Flowers | |
| Fruits | acorn 1.2-2 cm long, ovoid, with rounded base; plate-shaped cup, not rolled at rim, enclosing 1/4 to 1/3 of the nut, with appressed, slightly tuberculate scales; maturing in 1 year; |
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Bark, twigs and |
mature bark blackish, fissured; twig glabrescent with some inconspicuous lenticels; brown, ovoid bud with ciliate scales; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | not hardy; |
| Miscellaneous | -- Sub-genus Quercus, section
Lobatae, Series Erythromexicanae; -- Before 2003 this taxon was considered, with Q. nixoniana, as synonym of Q.salicifolia; |
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