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Quercus monterreyensis | |
Author | Trel. & C.H.Muller 1936 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 63: 151 |
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Range | Mexico
(Nuevo Leon); to 1300 m; |
Growth habit | small shrub; |
Leaves | 8-9 x 4 cm; deciduous; oval elliptic; apex pointed, base subcordate; olive green above; olive greenish, hairy beneath; margin entire, or remotely crenate near apex; |
Flowers | |
Fruits | acorn ovoid, enclosed 1/2 by cup; cup scaly, 1.5 cm in diameter; |
Bark, twigs and |
bark grey, deeply sulcate; |
Hardiness zone, habitat | not hardy; |
Miscellaneous | -- A. Camus : n° 209; -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae, Group Aurantiacae; -- Not well known; the name comes from Monterrey, city of Mexico (not from Monterey in California); -- For Govaerts, 2007, it is a synonym of Q. tuberculata |
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