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|accepted_name=Quercus vaseyana
|accepted_authority=Buckley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=10: 91. 1883
|year=1883
}}
|common_names=Vasey oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Quercus pungens var. vaseyana
|authority=(Buckley) C. H. Muller
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Quercus undulata var. vaseyana
|authority=(Buckley) Rydberg
}}
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Quercus;Quercus vaseyana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fagaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Quercus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Quercus sect. Quercus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Quercus vaseyana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, evergreen or subevergreen, to 10 m. <b>Bark</b> dark brown, furrowed and exfoliating in long strips. <b>Twigs</b> reddish or grayish brown, 1-1.5 mm diam., short stellate-tomentose or tomentulose, later glabrate or persistently pubescent, rarely glabrous. <b>Buds</b> dark red-brown or gray, round-ovoid, 1-1.5 mm, apex obtuse, sparsely pubescent or glabrate. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole to 5 mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade narrowly lanceolate to usually oblong, mostly planar or slightly convex, 20-60(-90) × 10-20 mm, often rather leathery, base cuneate to rounded, margins coarsely 3-5-toothed on each side or shallowly lobed or entire, with teeth or lobes acute or obtuse, mucronate-tipped, secondary veins 4-6 on each side, usually branched, apex acute, rarely obtuse; surfaces abaxially densely stellate with minute appressed hairs, rarely glabrate and lustrous green, adaxially dark green, lustrous, glabrous or very sparsely stellate-puberulent. <b>Acorns</b> subsessile or on peduncle 2-3 mm; cup saucer-shaped to cup-shaped, 3-4 mm deep × 10 mm wide, margin thin, scales reddish brown, strongly, regularly tuberculate; nut light brown, ovoid to oblong or subcylindric, to 12 × 12 mm, glabrous. <b>Cotyledons</b> distinct.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dry limestone slopes, oak and mesquite woodlands, juniper woodlands, and canyons and ravines in otherwise dry, open grasslands, sometimes descending into margins of dry scrub
|elevation=300-600 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;and Nuevo León).
|discussion=<p>Apparent hybridization between <i>Quercus vaseyana</i> and <i>Q. pungens</i> is discussed under the latter species.</p>
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name=Quercus vaseyana
|author=
|authority=Buckley
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Quercus pungens var. vaseyana;Quercus undulata var. vaseyana
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dry limestone slopes, oak and mesquite woodlands, juniper woodlands, and canyons and ravines in otherwise dry, open grasslands, sometimes descending into margins of dry scrub
|elevation=300-600 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;and Nuevo León).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1883
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_263.xml
|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Quercus
|species=Quercus vaseyana
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