Quercus chapmanii |
Quercus chihuahuensis |
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Chapman oak, Chapman's oak |
Chihuahua oak, Chihuahuan oak, felt oak |
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Habit | Shrubs, deciduous or subevergreen, 0.5-3(-6) m, often rhizomatous. | Shrubs or trees, deciduous, to 10 m. Bark gray, furrowed, checkered, or scaly. |
Bark | brown, scaly. |
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Twigs | yellowish, 1-2 mm diam., densely fine-tomentulose. |
gray, 2-3(-4) mm diam., densely tomentose. |
Buds | reddish brown, globose, 1-2(-3) mm, proximal scales densely tomentulose, distal scales glabrous. |
reddish brown, broadly ovoid, distally rounded, 2-2.5 mm, densely yellowish pubescent; scales gray-puberulent; stipules persistent, 1-4, subulate, pubescent, at base of terminal buds. |
Leaves | blade obovate or oblanceolate, 30-70(-85) × 14-30(-45) mm, base cuneate or attenuate, margins minutely revolute, entire or sinuately lobed, sometimes obscurely 3-lobed distally or with 3-5 rounded, irregular lobes in distal 1/2, secondary veins curved, 8-9 on each side, apex ovate or triangular-lobed, often retuse; surfaces abaxially grayish or yellowish, with yellowish, erect branched hairs, these soon shed, leaving matted glandular and waxy hairs except on ± glabrate yellowish veins, adaxially bright glossy, very reflective, glabrous or with minute, scattered, stellate hairs. |
blade elliptic or oblong to ovate or obovate, (25-)40-50(-85) × (18-)20-30(-50) mm, base rounded or shallowly cordate, margins entire or toothed to sublobate, secondary veins 8 to 10 on each side, somewhat branching, apex broadly rounded to acute; surfaces abaxially yellowish or grayish, densely stellate with velvety hairs, adaxially green, sparsely soft-pubescent with prominent, spreading, stellate hairs, felty to touch, secondary veins somewhat prominent on both surfaces, even under dense tomentum. |
Acorns | 1-2, on peduncle 1-6(-35) mm; cup hemispheric, 5-11 m deep × 10-15 mm wide, including 1/3-1/2 nut, scales closely appressed, gray, tomentulose; nut light brown, ovoid to barrel-shaped, 15-20 × 9-13 mm, apex rounded, glabrous or puberulent. |
1-3 on tomentose peduncle 15-35(-60) mm; cup hemispheric, 7-10 mm deep × 10-15 mm wide, enclosing 1/2 nut, scales proximally thickened, distally appressed, densely gray-puberulent, tips reddish, ultimately glabrate; nut ovoid, 14-18 × 10-12 mm, puberulent, eventually glabrate. |
Cotyledons | distinct. |
connate. |
Quercus chapmanii |
Quercus chihuahuensis |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–early spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Open pine forests, scrublands, xerophytic scrub oak, on sand near coast | Oak and pinyon-juniper woodlands, grassy hills, sometimes extending into dry thorn scrub and bursera woodland (Mexico) |
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) | 400-2000 m (1300-6600 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; GA; SC
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TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí)
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Discussion | Quercus chihuahuensis is a distinctive species throughout its range, mostly in dry montane western Mexico; it occurs in the United States only as putative hybrids with Q. grisea (the Eagle and Quitman mountains) and Q. arizonica (Hueco Tanks) in Texas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Quercus | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Quercus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Q. infralutea, Q. jaliscensis, Q. santaclarensis | |
Name authority | Sargent: Gard. & Forest 8: 93. (1895) | Trelease: Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 85. (1924) |
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