| Quercus buckleyi | |
| Author | Nixon & Dorr 1985 |
| Synonyms | texana Young 1873, nom. illeg.
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| Local names | Buckley’s oak;
Texas red oak; Texas oak; |
| Range | Texas (Edwards Plateau), Oklahoma;
150 -500 m; area much more limited than for the neighbouring Q. shumardii;
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| Growth habit | reaches 15 m tall; |
| Leaves | 5-10 x 5-11 cm; broadly elliptic
to obovate or almost orbicualar; apex pointed, ; base cuneate, often asymmetrical;
margin with 5-8 triangular lobes; sinuses much more deep and rounded than
those of Q.shumardii;
dark green, hairless, bright above;
paler beneath with sometimes rusty axil tufts; 3-5 vein pairs; petiole
2-4 cm, glabrous; |
| Flowers | |
| Fruits | acorn ovoid to ellipsoid, 1.2-1.8
cm long, with ringed stylopodium; subsessile; enclosed 1/3 or 1/2 by the
cup; cup bowl-shaped with pointed, appressed, glabrous, sometimes tuberculate
scales; |
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Bark, twigs and |
bark grey and smooth,
becoming dark and furrowed; branchlet brown, sometimes yellow grey, glabrous;
buds red, hairy, spindle-shaped, 3-7 mm; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy zone 6; requires
dry and calcareous soils; |
| Miscellaneous | -- A. Camus n°
295; -- Sub-genus Quercus, section Lobatae; -- closely related to Q.shumardii -- this species was erroneously named Q.texana, Q.rubra var. texana, Q.shumardii var. texana, while the true Q.texana is Q.nuttallii; |
| Subspecies and varieties |
--- var. paludosa
Sarg. 1910 --- hybridizes with Q.marilandica (= Q.x hastingsii) |
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