Quercus acutifolia

Quercus acutifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Fagales
Family:Fagaceae
Genus:Quercus
Subgenus:Quercus subg. Quercus
Section:Quercus sect. Lobatae
Species: Q. acutifolia
Binomial name
Quercus acutifolia
Synonyms[2]

Quercus acutifolia is a Mexican species of oak tree in the family beech family. It is native to central and southern Mexico and northern Central America, from Nayarit south as far as Belize and Guatemala.[3][4]

Quercus acutifolia is a deciduous tree up to 12 meters tall with a trunk as much as 30 cm in diameter. Leaves are stiff and leathery, rigid, narrowly elliptical, up to 16 cm long, dark green on the top and lighter green underneath, with 8–14 bristly teeth on each side.[3] It retains its leaves until winter and can withstand about minus 10 °C.

References

  1. Wenzell , K.; Kenny, L. (2015). "Quercus acutifolia". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2015). Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  2. "Quercus acutifolia Née". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew via The Plant List.
  3. 1 2 Romero Rangel, S., E. C. Rojas Zenteno & M. L. Aguilar Enríquez. 2002. El género Quercus (Fagaceae) en el estado de México. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 89(4): 551–593 in Spanish, with line drawings of each species
  4. McVaugh, R. 1974. Flora Novo-Galiciana: Fagaceae. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 12(1,3): 1–93


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