Biology:Quercus peduncularis

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Short description: Species of oak tree

Quercus peduncularis
The Central American species of Quercus (1942) (20401465109).jpg
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fagales
Family: Fagaceae
Genus: Quercus
Subgenus: Quercus subg. Quercus
Section: Quercus sect. Quercus
Species:
Q. peduncularis
Binomial name
Quercus peduncularis
Née
Synonyms[1]

Quercus peduncularis is an oak native to Mexico and Central America,[1] ranging from Jalisco to Honduras.[2][3][4][5][6]

It is placed in the white oak group, Quercus section Quercus.[7]

Description

Quercus peduncularis is a small tree growing up to 4 metres (13 feet) tall. The leaves are thick and leathery, up to 10 centimetres (4 inches) long, lance-shaped or egg-shaped with 9–14 pairs of pointed teeth on the edges.[3]

Distribution

Quercus peduncularis is native to central, southeastern and southwestern Mexico, including Veracruz, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Quercus peduncularis Née". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:325828-2. 
  2. McVaugh, R. 1974. Flora Novo-Galiciana: Fagaceae. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 12(1,3): 1–93
  3. 3.0 3.1 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. Muller, C. H. 1942. The Central American species of Quercus. United States Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Plant Industry. Miscellaneous Publication 477: 1–216
  5. Berendsohn, W.G., A. K. Gruber & J. A. Monterrosa Salomón. 2009. Nova silva cuscatlanica. Árboles nativos e introducidos de El Salvador. Parte 1: Angiospermae - Familias A a L. Englera 29(1): 1–438.
  6. Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246
  7. 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. 

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