Quercus hypoleucoides |
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silverleaf oak |
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Habit | Trees or shrubs, evergreen, to 10 m. Bark black, deeply furrowed. |
Twigs | dark reddish brown, 1.5-3 mm diam., pubescent. |
Leaves | blade narrowly ovate to ovate or elliptic, 45-120 × 15-40 mm, base cuneate to rounded, margins strongly revolute, entire or spinose with up to 11 awns, apex acute to attenuate; surfaces abaxially densely tawny- or white-tomentose, adaxially noticeably rugose, glabrous. |
Acorns | annual or biennial; cup deeply saucer- or cup-shaped, 4.5-7 mm high × 6-13 mm wide, covering 1/3 nut or less, outer surface pubescent to sparsely puberulent, inner surface pubescent to floccose, scales appressed, blunt; nut ellipsoid to oblong, 8-16 × 5-10 mm, glabrous, scar diam. 2.5-5.5 mm. |
Terminal | buds light chestnut brown, ovoid, 2.5-4.5 mm, glabrous except for ciliate scale margins, occasionally with tuft of hairs at apex. |
Quercus hypoleucoides |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Common in moist canyons and on ridges |
Elevation | 1500-2700 m (4900-8900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; n Mexico
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Discussion | Quercus hypoleucoides reportedly hybridizes with Q. gravesii (Q. ×inconstans E. J. Palmer [= Q. livermorensis C. H. Muller]) (see C. H. Muller 1951). Several specimens from Pima County, Arizona, fall outside the range of typical Q. hypoleucoides, suggesting hybridization with the Mexican Q. mcvaughii Spellenberg (R. Spellenberg 1992). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Lobatae |
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Synonyms | Q. hypoleuca |
Name authority | A. Camus: Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., sér. 2, 4: 124. (1932) |
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