Quercus salicifolia

Quercus salicifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fagales
Family: Fagaceae
Genus: Quercus
Species: Q. salicifolia
Binomial name
Quercus salicifolia
Née 1801 not Steud. 1841 nor Benth. 1840
Synonyms[1]

Quercus salicifolia is a Mesoamerican species of oak in the beech family. It is native to Central America and to central and southern Mexico, from Jalisco to Panamá.[2][3][4][5]

Description

Quercus salicifolia is a tree up to 25 meters tall, with a trunk up to 100 cm in diameter. Leaves narrowly lance-shaped, up to 20 cm long, with no teeth or lobes.[2][6]

The epithet "salicifolia" means "willow-leaved" alluding to the resemblance between the leaves of Q salicifolia and those of several species of Salix.

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List, Quercus salicifolia Née
  2. 1 2 McVaugh, R. 1974. Flora Novo-Galiciana: Fagaceae. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 12:77-80 in English, with line drawing on page 78
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Morales Quirós, J. F. 2015. Santalaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. VIII. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 131: 13–36
  5. ↑ Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá
  6. ↑ Née, Luis 1801. Anales de Ciencias Naturales 3: 265-267 short diagnosis in Latin, description and commentary in Spanish

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