| Quercus acutifolia | |
| Author | Née 1801 |
| Synonyms | acutifolia var.
conspersa (Benth) A.DC 1864 acutifolia var. microcarpa A.DC 1864 conspersa Benth. 1842 correpta Trel. 1924 nitida sensu Mart. & Gal. 1843, nom. illeg. uruapanensis Trel. 1922 |
| Local names | encino pipitillo; tepozcohuite; |
| Range | Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero,
Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Oaxaca); Guatemala; 400-2400 m; |
| Growth habit | 3 to 30 m; generally 10-15 m; trunk to 0.5 m in diameter; |
| Leaves |
5-10(20) x 2-6 cm; deciduous; thickly leathery;
broadly lanceolate to ovate or obovate (no more than 4 times longer
as wide); apex pointed to acuminate,
bristle-tipped; base rounded or subcordate or attenuate; margin mostly
entire, thickenned, revolute; dark olive green, glabrous, slightly lustrous
above; almost hairless beneath with yellowish glandular hairs, sometimes
axil tufts; 7-14 veins pairs, straight or slightly curved; midrib raised
abaxially; petiole hairy 7-30 mm ; |
| Flowers | male catkins 4-11 cm long,
pubescent, with 20-50 flowers, from February to March; pistillate ones
0.6-2 cm, 1 to 4-flowered; |
| Fruits | acorn ovoid 1-2 cm; singly
or to 4 on a stout peduncle 2-20 mm long; cup half-round, with rim often
rolled under, with pubescent scales, covering 1/3 or 1/2 of nut; maturing
in 1 or 2 years (from June to February); |
| Bark, twigs and |
bark dark brown,
rough, broken into square plates; twigs 1-3.5 mm in diameter, becoming
glabrous, red brown, with numerous pale lenticels; buds pointed, pubescent,
3-7 mm long; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy in zone
8; |
| Miscellaneous | -- Sub-genus Quercus, section Lobatae,
sub-section Acutifoliae; -- Resembles Q. grahamii, but this one has narrow elliptic leaves with dentate, bristle-tipped margins; |
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