Quercus georgiana |
Quercus toumeyi |
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Georgia oak, stone mountain oak |
Toumey oak, Toumey's oak |
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Habit | Trees, deciduous, to 15 m. Bark gray to light brown, scaly. | Shrubs or small trees, deciduous or subevergreen. |
Bark | dark gray to almost black, scaly. |
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Twigs | deep red, 1-2 mm diam., glabrous. |
brownish, 1-2 mm, usually persistently pubescent. |
Buds | reddish brown, ovoid, ca. 1 mm. |
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Leaves | blade broadly ovate to elliptic or obovate, 40-130 × 20-90 mm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins with 3-5(-7) oblong lobes and up to 10 awns, apex acute; surfaces abaxially glabrous except for conspicuous axillary tufts of tomentum, veins raised, adaxially planar, glabrous. |
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 | biennial; cup thin, saucer-shaped, 4-6 mm high × 9-14 mm wide, covering 1/3 nut, outer surface puberulent, inner surface glabrous or with a few hairs around scar, scale tips appressed, acute; nut globose or ovoid, 9-14 × 9-14 mm, glabrous, scar diam. 4-7.5 mm. |
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. |
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Terminal | buds red-brown, ovoid to subconic, 2.5-5 mm, glabrous or scales somewhat ciliate. |
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Quercus georgiana |
Quercus toumeyi |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Granitic outcrops and dry slopes and knolls | Rocky slopes, oak woodlands, and open chaparral |
Elevation | 50-500 m (200-1600 ft) | 1500-1800 m (4900-5900 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; GA; SC
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua and Sonora)
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Discussion | Quercus georgiana reportedly hybridizes with Q. marilandica (= Q. ×smallii Trelease) and Q. nigra, although D. M. Hunt (1989) has questioned the validity of the former report. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Lobatae | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Quercus |
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Synonyms | Q. hartmanii | |
Name authority | M. A. Curtis: Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, 7: 406. (1849) | Sargent: Gard. & Forest 8: 92. (1895) |
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