Quercus crassipes

Quercus crassipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fagales
Family:	Fagaceae
Genus:	Quercus
Species:	Q. crassipes
Binomial name
Quercus crassipes Bonpl. 1809
Synonyms[1]
List Quercus castanea var. glabrata (Liebm. ex Seem.) A.DC. Quercus colimae Trel. Quercus colimae f. zauzillo Trel. Quercus confertifolia Bonpl. Quercus crassipes var. angustifolia Bonpl. Quercus cuajimalpana]] Trel. Quercus imbricariifolia Trel. Quercus mexicana Benth. 1840 not Bonpl. 1809 Quercus mexicana f. angustifolia (Bonpl.) Trel. Quercus mexicana var. confertifolia (Bonpl.) Wenz. Quercus mexicana f. confertifolia (Bonpl.) Trel. Quercus mexicana f. glabrata (Liebm. ex Seem.) Trel. Quercus mexicana var. glabrata Liebm. ex Seem. Quercus obovalifolia E.Fourn. ex Trel.

Quercus crassipes is a Mexican species of oak tree in the beech family. It is widespread across much of Mexico from Sonora and Hidalgo south to Chiapas.^[2][3]

Quercus crassipes is a tree up to 17 meters tall with a trunk as much as 100 cm in diameter. Leaves are thick and leathery, up to 108 mm long, elliptical with wavy edges no teeth or lobes.^[2][4][5]

References

1. The Plant List, Quercus conspersa Benth.
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
3. McVaugh, R. 1974. Flora Novo-Galiciana: Fagaceae. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 12(1,3): 1–93
4. Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre. 1809. Plantae Aequinoctiales 2: 37-38
5. Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre. 1809. Plantae Aequinoctiales 2: plate 83 drawing of Quercus crassipes

External links

• photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in 1978