Biology:Quercus minima
| Dwarf live oak | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fagales |
| Family: | Fagaceae |
| Genus: | Quercus |
| Subgenus: | Quercus subg. Quercus |
| Section: | Quercus sect. Virentes |
| Species: | Q. minima
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| Binomial name | |
| Quercus minima (Sarg.) Small
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Quercus minima, the dwarf live oak or minimal oak, is a North American species of shrubs in the beech family. It is native to the southeastern United States. It is placed in the southern live oaks section of the genus Quercus (section Virentes).[4]
Quercus minima is an evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub rarely more than 2 metres (6 1⁄2 feet) tall, reproducing by seed and also by means of underground rhizomes. It commonly forms extensive cloned colonies with many stems, many of them unbranched. The leaves are alternate, up to 12 centimetres (4 1⁄2 inches) long, and toothless or with irregular teeth or lobes. The lobes, when present, are usually spine-tipped. The leaves are retained through the winter, dropping just before or as new growth resumes in late winter or early spring.[5]
Quercus minima is native to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States, primarily in Florida but extending from there to the Carolinas and eastern Louisiana.[6] There are reports of the species also growing in Texas, but these populations appear to belong to other taxa.[5][7]
References
- ↑ Wenzell , K.; Kenny, L. (2015). "Quercus minima". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/194198/171683043. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
- ↑ Small, John Kunkel (1897). "Shrubs and Trees of the Southern States.—II.". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 24 (9): 438.
- ↑ "Quercus minima (Sarg.) Small". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew). http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-173948.
- ↑ Denk, Thomas; Grimm, Guido W.; Manos, Paul S.; Deng, Min; Hipp, Andrew L. (2017). "Appendix 2.1: An updated infrageneric classification of the oaks" (xls). https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_2_1_________An_updated_infrageneric_classification_of_the_oaks/5547622/1.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nixon, Kevin C. (1997), "Quercus minima", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA), 3, New York and Oxford, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233501062
- ↑ "Quercus minima", County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) (Biota of North America Program (BONAP)), 2014, http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Quercus%20minima.png
- ↑ "Quercus minima". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=QUMI2.
Wikidata ☰ Q3827372 entry
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