General data | Classifications | List of species | Local names | Back
to home page |
Quercus meavei | |
Author | Valencia-A. Sabás & Soto 2016 |
Synonyms | |
Local names | |
Range | Mexico, in the Sierra Madre Oriental (Hidalgo, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz); 1600-2200; |
Growth habit | 20-30 m |
Leaves | 13-18 x 4-7 cm; coriaceous; lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolae, seldom elliptic; apex acute aristate; base obtuse or cuneate; margin slightly thickenned, not revolute, crispate, with 11-16 pairs of longly aristate teeth (teeth 2-8 mm long); adaxially dull green, glabrous or with some stellate hairs near base; abaxially glabrous except stipitate fascicled hairs in axils tufts; 14-18 secondary vein pairs, ascendent, nearly straight, impressed above, prominent beneath; epidermis slightly papillose; petiole 1.5-4.5 cm, brown, glabrescent except at the tomentose base; |
Flowers | in March; male catkins slightly pilose, 7 cm long; male flowers with 6 stamens; female flowers 2 on a 2-4 mm peduncle; |
Fruits | acorn 1.2-1.6 cm long, ovoid, hairless, singly or paired on a 0.6-1.3 cm long peduncle; enclosed 1/2 or 1/3 by cup; cup half-round, with straight rim, 1.5-2.3 cm in diameter, with lanceolate, setose, appressed scales; maturation in 2 years, from September to November; |
Bark, twigs and |
branchlet 2.2-2.8 mm in diameter, slightly sulcate, hairless or most often with a yellow tomentum made of shortly stipitate fascicled hairs on the end of the twig and the base of the petiole; pale lenticels; bud 5-9 mm long, ovoid, pointed, with glabrous, ciliate at margin scales; stipules deciduous, sometimes persistent neat the end of the twig; |
Hardiness zone, habitat | tempered rainforest; |
Miscellaneous |
-- Sub-genus Quercus, section Lobatae, Series Erythromexicanae,
Group Acutifoliae; |
Subspecies and varieties |
|
Pictures |
|