| Quercus alpescens | |
| Author | Trel. 1924 Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20:
83 1924. Diagnosis here |
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| Range | Mexico (Hidalgo) |
| Growth habit | 1 to 1.5 m |
| Leaves | 3-4 cm long, 1-2 cm wide; evergreen; broadly elliptic; both ends rounded; dark green, bright, subglabrous above; densely brownish tomentose below; margin crispate and revolute, wavy, entire or toothed; about 6 veins pairs, remotely curved, impressed adaxially, strongly raised beneath; petiole tomentose, 2-5 mm long; |
| Flowers | |
| Fruits | acorn oblong, subsessil, 1-1.5 cm long with hairy and mucronate apex; enclosed for 1/3 of length in 1 cm wide cup; scales of the cup slender, appressed, pointed; annual maturation; |
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Bark, twigs and |
twig rather thin (to 3 mm), densely tomentose; bud brown, glabrescent, small, ovoid. |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | not quite hardy; |
| Miscellaneous | -- A. Camus : n° 243 -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus -- For Zavala-Chavez, 2003, it is a variety of Q.repanda. |
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