Quercus pumila |
Quercus emoryi |
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runner oak, running oak |
bellota, Emory oak, Emory's oak |
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Habit | Shrubs, deciduous or tardily deciduous, to 1 m. Bark gray to dark brown. | Trees or shrubs, evergreen, to 15 m. Bark dark brown to black, deeply fissured. |
Twigs | gray-brown to reddish brown, 1-2 mm diam., sparsely to uniformly pubescent. |
dark reddish brown, 1-3 mm diam., pubescent. |
Leaves | blade oblong to narrowly obovate, 25-100 × 10-33 mm, base acute to rounded, margins entire, revolute, with 1 apical awn, apex acute or obtuse to rounded; surfaces abaxially uniformly gray-brown pubescent, rarely glabrate, adaxially somewhat convex, rugose, glabrous or with scattered hairs along midrib. |
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 | annual; cup deeply saucer-shaped to turbinate, 5-12 mm high × 10-15 mm wide, covering 1/3-1/2(-2/3) nut, outer surface pubescent, inner surface densely pubescent, scales rarely involute, often tuberculate, tips tightly appressed, acute; nut globose to ovoid or broadly oblong, 9.5-15 × 9-12 mm, glabrate, scar diam. 5-8 mm. |
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. |
Terminal | buds brown to red-brown, ovoid, 2.5-4.5 mm, glabrous or with ciliate scale margins. |
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. |
Quercus pumila |
Quercus emoryi |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Dry sandy soils of savannahs, low ridges and oak-pine scrub, occasionally at margins of poorly drained sites | Foothills and slopes |
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) | 1000-2200 m (3300-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC
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AZ; NM; TX; n Mexico
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Discussion | Although no hybrid combinations have been formally proposed, D. M. Hunt (1989) has reported evidence of hybridization with Quercus hemisphaerica, Q. incana, Q. myrtifolia, and Q. phellos. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Quercus emoryi reportedly hybridizes with Q. graciliformis (= Q. ×tharpii C. H. Muller). (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. Lobatae |
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Synonyms | Q. hastata | |
Name authority | Walter: Fl. Carol., 234. (1788) | Torrey: in W. H. Emory, Not. Milit. Reconn., 151, plate 9. (1848) |
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