Quercus chapmanii |
Quercus toumeyi |
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Chapman oak, Chapman's oak |
Toumey oak, Toumey's oak |
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Habit | Shrubs, deciduous or subevergreen, 0.5-3(-6) m, often rhizomatous. | Shrubs or small trees, deciduous or subevergreen. |
Bark | brown, scaly. |
dark gray to almost black, scaly. |
Twigs | yellowish, 1-2 mm diam., densely fine-tomentulose. |
brownish, 1-2 mm, usually persistently pubescent. |
Buds | reddish brown, globose, 1-2(-3) mm, proximal scales densely tomentulose, distal scales glabrous. |
reddish brown, ovoid, ca. 1 mm. |
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 oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, 15-25(-30) × (6-)8-12(-15) mm, base obtuse or cuneate, rarely subcordate, margins strongly cartilaginous, entire, sometimes sparsely mucronate-dentate toward apex, secondary veins 7-8 on each side, apex acute, sometimes rounded; surfaces abaxially dull gray, microscopically pubescent with long, soft, white or yellow hairs concentrated in tufts along midvein and base, adaxially glossy green, sparsely minutely stellate-pubescent or glabrate. |
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. |
solitary or paired, subsessile or on peduncle 2 mm; cup cup-shaped, 6 mm deep × ca. 8-9 mm wide, enclosing ca. 1/3 nut, scales moderately tuberculate; nut light brown, narrowly ovoid or elliptic, 8-15 × 6-8 mm. |
Cotyledons | distinct. |
distinct. |
Quercus chapmanii |
Quercus toumeyi |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–early spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Open pine forests, scrublands, xerophytic scrub oak, on sand near coast | Rocky slopes, oak woodlands, and open chaparral |
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) | 1500-1800 m (4900-5900 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; GA; SC
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua and Sonora)
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Discussion | Quercus toumeyi, particularly the more spinescent-leaved form, is often confused with Q. turbinella. The latter species has acorns on peduncles greater than 10 mm, and more or less evenly distributed minute, flat, stellate trichomes on the abaxial leaf surface, in contrast to the subsessile acorns and longer straight hairs along the midvein of the abaxial leaf surface in Q. toumeyi. (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. hartmanii | |
Name authority | Sargent: Gard. & Forest 8: 93. (1895) | Sargent: Gard. & Forest 8: 92. (1895) |
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