| Quercus salicifolia | |
| Author |
Née 1801 Anales Ci. Nat. 3: 265 Diagnosis here |
| Synonyms | acapulcensis Trel. 1924 diagnosis
here chiriquensis Trel. ex C.H.Muller 1942 duratifolia C.H.Muller 1942 (A. Camus : n° 330) diagnosis here mexicana var. glabrata Liebm. ex Seem. 1856 mulleri Martinez panamandinea C.H.Muller 1942 Misc. Publ. U.S. Dept. Agric. 477: 26 Diagnosis here tahuasalana Trel. 1924 |
| Local names | encino saucillo; |
| Range | Mexico in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Pacific side (Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querretaro), Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua; 800-2000 m; |
| Growth habit | 10-25
m tall with trunk to 0.6 m in diameter; cylindrical trunk; dense rounded
crown; |
| Leaves | 7-15
x 2-4 cm; 3.6 to 4.5 times longer than wide; deciduous; leathery; elliptic-lanceolate;
apex acute, acuminate, aristate; base narrowly rounded; margin thick,
not revolute, wavy, entire; adaxially dark, shiny glaucous green, hairless;
pale green beneath, slightly glaucous, hairless or with some fascicled
trichomes at axils; 15-25 vein pairs, not really parallel, at an angle
more than 45° with the midrib, weakly raised beneath; epidermis smooth,
not bullate; petiole 1-6 mm, pinkish, glabrescent; |
| Flowers | December
to January; male catkins 4-6 cm long, few-flowered; pistillate inflorescences
0.2-0.8 cm long, with 1-4 flowers; |
| Fruits | acorn 1-1.6 cm long x 0.8-1.2 cm wide; cylindric-elliptic; mucronate and pubescent; singly or paired; stalk 0.5-1 cm; pericarp pubescent inside; enclosed 1/4 to 1/3 by cup; cup half-round 1.5-2 cm in diameter, with pointed, shiny, pale brown scales; maturing in 1 year from April to July; |
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Bark, twigs and |
bark rough, yellow grey to blackish, with vertical ridges and horizontal furrows; twigs slender, 1-2.5 mm thick, glabrescent, dark pinkish brown; marked pale lenticels, 0.5-1 mm long; buds oval lanceolate, pointed, 1.5-5 mm long, with silky scales; stipules 5 mm long, deciduous; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy zone 8; slow-growing; wet mountains forests; |
| Miscellaneous | -- A. Camus : n°
405; -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section Lobatae, Subsection Erythromexicanae, Group Eugeniaefoliae; -- Close to Q. pinnativenulosa, which differs from Q. salicifolia in having narrower leaves longly acuminate at apex, with a bristle-tip often in a spiral, acorns maturing in 2 years, glabrous leaves without any shade of glaucous, base of leaf cuneate, longer petiole. -- Hybridizes with Q.benthamii, Q.cortesii and Q.sapotifolia; -- Q.mulleri (Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 24: 51) is a true species for The Plant List 2013, but it could be a variant with leaves having 25-30 vein pairs at an angle of 60° with the midrib; Mexico (Oaxaca). Threatened (IUCN Red List Category : CR) -- Q.panamandinea is, for Govaerts & Frodin, a true species; the same Authors seem not to know Q. chiriquensis...(they don't quote this name in their World Checklist of Fagales). --For Susana Valencia Avalos 2004, Q.duratifolia is a true species, but not for Linares, J.L., (El Salvador) in 2006, nor for The Plant List 2013. |
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