Quercus oleoides

Quercus oleoides
Berlin Botanical Garden
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fagales
Family: Fagaceae
Genus: Quercus
Section: Quercus
Series: Virentes
Species: Q. oleoides
Binomial name
Quercus oleoides
Schltdl. & Cham. 1830[1]
Synonyms[2]
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Quercus oleoides, with Spanish common names encina or encino, is a Mesoamerican species of oak in the beech family. It grows in dry forests and pastureland of eastern and southern Mexico and much of Central America, from Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica north as far as the State of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.[3][4][5]

Quercus oleoides is a slow-growing tree, reaching 8–15 metres (26–49 ft) in height. Its pale gray leaves are evergreen, thick, hard, 4 to 11 cm (0.8-4.4 inches) long, 2 to 5 cm (0.8-1.0 inch) wide, oblong or elliptic. It flowers from December through May, with male catkins that are 3 to 4 cm (1.2-1.6 inches) long, and female catkins that are 3 to 30 mm long, containing one to six flowers, each about 7 mm long.[6]

Its wood is extremely heavy with intercrossed grains; the sapwood is white, and heartwood brown.[7]

References

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  1. ↑ This species was first described and published under the name Quercus oleoides in Linnaea, 5:79. 1830. "Plant Name Details for Quercus oleoides". IPNI. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
  2. ↑ The Plant List, Quercus oleoides Schltdl. & Cham.
  3. ↑ Muller, C. H. 1942. The Central American species of Quercus. United States Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Plant Industry. Miscellaneous Publication 477: 1–216
  4. ↑ Nelson, C. H. 1978. Contribuciones a la flora de la Mosquitía, Honduras. Ceiba 22(1): 41–64
  5. ↑ Pérez J., L. A., M. Sousa Sánchez, A. M. Hanan-Alipi, F. Chiang Cabrera & P. Tenorio L. 2005. Vegetación terrestre. Cap. 4: 65–110. In J. Bueno, F Álvarez & S. Santiago (eds.) Biodiversidad del Estado de Tabasco. CONABIO-UNAM, México
  6. ↑ L. A. Fournier, "Quercus oleoides Schltdl. & Cham.", Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica
  7. ↑ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - Quercus oleoides


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