View source for Quercus cornelius-mulleri

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|accepted_name=Quercus cornelius-mulleri
|accepted_authority=Nixon & K. P. Steele
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=28: 210. 1981
|year=1981
}}
|common_names=Muller oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Quercus;Quercus cornelius-mulleri
|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 cornelius-mulleri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> evergreen or subevergreen, densely branched, 1-2(-3) m. <b>Bark</b> gray, scaly. <b>Twigs</b> gray, yellowish, or brownish, 1-1.5 mm diam., densely tomentulose, rarely glabrate. <b>Buds</b> dull brown, ovoid, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous except for margins of scales. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2-5 mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade strongly bicolored, ovate to oblong or narrowly obovate, 15-35 ×10-20 mm, rather thick and leathery, base cuneate or attenuate-rounded, margins entire or irregularly, shallowly toothed, teeth mucronate, rarely spinose, secondary veins 6-7 on each side, apex rounded or acute; surfaces abaxially whitish, densely covered with minute, compact, appressed, (8-)10-14(-16)-rayed stellate hairs less than 0.2 mm diam. (lateral fusion of rays visible under high magnification), without glandular seriate hairs, adaxially dull, light green, grayish, or yellowish green, with scattered, appressed-stellate hairs to 0.2 mm diam. <b>Acorns</b> solitary or clustered, subsessile; cup deeply cup-shaped or turbinate, to 5-13 mm deep × 12-20 mm wide, scales whitish or cream, strongly tuberculate especially near base of cup; nut dark brown, fusiform or cylyndric, 20-30 × 10-30 mm. <b>Cotyledons</b> distinct.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring.
|habitat=Open chaparral, pinyon and juniper woodlands, desert margins, often on loose granitic soils
|elevation=1000-1800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Quercus cornelius-mulleri</i> is easily distinguished from other California scrub oaks by the strongly bicolored leaves, dense minute tomentum of the abaxial leaf surface, and large acute acorns in deep tuberculate cups. Of greater difficulty are swarms of putative hybrids with <i>Q. engelmannii</i>, sometimes referred to as Q. ×acutidens.</p><!--
--><p>In Joshua Tree National Monument a lone tree and several shrubs appear to be hybrids and backcrosses between <i>Quercus cornelius-mulleri</i> and <i>Q. lobata</i>. This tree is the basis of <i>Quercus</i> ×munzii J. M. Tucker.</p>
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name=Quercus cornelius-mulleri
|author=
|authority=Nixon & K. P. Steele
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring.
|habitat=Open chaparral, pinyon and juniper woodlands, desert margins, often on loose granitic soils
|elevation=1000-1800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1981
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Quercus
|species=Quercus cornelius-mulleri
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