Quercus laurina

Quercus laurina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fagales
Family:	Fagaceae
Genus:	Quercus
Section:	Lobatae
Species:	Q. laurina
Binomial name
Quercus laurina Humb. & Bonpl. 1809 not Liebm. ex A. DC. 1864 nor M. Martens & Galeotti 1843 nor Raf. 1838
Synonyms[1]
List Dryopsila laurina (Bonpl.) Raf. Quercus barbinervis Benth. Quercus bourgaei Oerst. ex Hemsl. Quercus bourgaei var. ilicifolia Trel. Quercus caeruleocarpa Trel. Quercus castanea var. tridens (Bonpl.) A.DC. Quercus chrysophylla Bonpl. Quercus lanceolata Bonpl. Quercus lanceolata var. undulatodentata A.DC. Quercus laurina Liebm. ex A.DC. Quercus laurina var. barbinervis (Benth.) Wenz. Quercus laurina var. major (A.DC.) Wenz. Quercus major (A.DC.) Trel. Quercus malinaltepecana Trel. Quercus nitens var. major A.DC. Quercus orizabae Liebm. Quercus roseovenulosa Trel. Quercus salicifolia Benth. 1840 not Née 1801 Quercus salicifolia var. tlapuxahuensis (A.DC.) Wenz. Quercus tlapuxahuensis A.DC. Quercus tlapuxahuensis var. obconica Trel. Quercus treleaseana A.Camus Quercus tridens Bonpl.

Quercus laurina is a Mexican species of trees in the Fagaceae. It is native primarily to Mexico (from Tamaulipas to Chiapas) and has also been found in Guatemala and El Salvador.^[2][3][4][5]

Quercus laurina is a tree up to 30 meters tall with a trunk as much as 50 cm or more in diameter. Leaves are thick and leathery, up to 155 mm long, elliptical sometimes with a few large teeth near the tip.^[2]

Quercus laurina forms hybrids with Quercus affinis.^[6]

References

1. The Plant List, Quercus laurina Bonpl.
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. Tropicos, Quercus laurina Bonpl.
5. Linares, J. L. 2003. Listado comentado de los árboles nativos y cultivados en la república de El Salvador. Ceiba 44(2): 105–268
6. González-Rodríguez A, Arias DM, Oyama K (2005). "Genetic variation and differentiation of populations within the Quercus affinis – Quercus laurina (Fagaceae) complex analyzed with RAPD markers" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Botany. 83: 155–62. doi:10.1139/B04-162.

External links

• photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in 1993