| Quercus monterreyensis | |
| Author | Trel. & C.H.Muller 1936 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 63: 151 |
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| Range | Mexico
(Nuevo Leon); to 1300 m; |
| Growth habit | small shrub; |
| Leaves | 8-9 x 4 cm; deciduous; oval-elliptic; apex pointed; base subcordate or truncate; greyish or olive green above; olive greenish, hairy beneath; margin entire or remotely crenate near apex; 10 pairs of lateral veins; petiole orangish 5-10 mm long; |
| Flowers | female catkin short, multi-flowered; |
| Fruits | acorn ovoid, enclosed 1/2 by cup; cup scaly, deep, tomentose, 1.5 cm in diameter; |
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Bark, twigs and |
bark grey, deeply furrowed; twig 2-3 mm long, sulcate, grey, glabrous, with pale lenticels; bud ovoid, subacute, brown, glabescent, with persistent stipules; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | not hardy; |
| Miscellaneous | -- A. Camus : n° 209; -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae, Group Aurantiacae; -- Not well known; the name comes from Monterrey, city of Mexico (not from Monterey in California); -- For Govaerts, 2007, it is a synonym of Q. tuberculata |
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| Pictures |
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