Quercus chapmanii |
Quercus emoryi |
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Chapman oak, Chapman's oak |
bellota, Emory oak, Emory's oak |
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Habit | Shrubs, deciduous or subevergreen, 0.5-3(-6) m, often rhizomatous. | Trees or shrubs, evergreen, to 15 m. Bark dark brown to black, deeply fissured. |
Bark | brown, scaly. |
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Twigs | yellowish, 1-2 mm diam., densely fine-tomentulose. |
dark reddish brown, 1-3 mm diam., pubescent. |
Buds | reddish brown, globose, 1-2(-3) mm, proximal scales densely tomentulose, distal scales glabrous. |
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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 ovate to narrowly oblong to obovate, planar, 28-95 × 15-45 mm, base cordate, margins entire or spinose, with up to 13 awns, apex blunt to acute; surfaces abaxially glabrous except for tuft of tomentum on each side of midrib at base of blade, rarely completely glabrous, adaxially not rugous, glabrous or with a few hairs along midrib. |
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. |
annual; cup cup-shaped, 5-7.5 mm high × 7-12 mm wide, covering 1/4-1/2 nut, outer surface pubescent to sparsely puberulent, inner surface pubescent to floccose, scale tips appressed, blunt; nut ellipsoid to oblong, 10-18 × 6-10 mm, glabrous to puberulent, especially at apex, scar diam. 3-5.5 mm. |
Cotyledons | distinct. |
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Terminal | buds reddish brown, ovoid to subconic, 2.5-6.5 mm, glabrous except for tuft of hairs at apex, occasionally hairy on distal 1/2. |
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Quercus chapmanii |
Quercus emoryi |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–early spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Open pine forests, scrublands, xerophytic scrub oak, on sand near coast | Foothills and slopes |
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) | 1000-2200 m (3300-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; GA; SC
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AZ; NM; TX; n Mexico
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Discussion | Quercus emoryi reportedly hybridizes with Q. graciliformis (= Q. ×tharpii C. H. Muller). (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. Lobatae |
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Synonyms | Q. hastata | |
Name authority | Sargent: Gard. & Forest 8: 93. (1895) | Torrey: in W. H. Emory, Not. Milit. Reconn., 151, plate 9. (1848) |
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