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|accepted_name=Quercus agrifolia
|accepted_authority=Nee.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Anales Ci. Nat.
|place=3: 271. 1801
|year=1801
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|common_names=Coast live 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 acroglandis
|authority=Kellogg
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|name=Quercus agrifolia var. oxyadenia
|authority=(Torrey) J. T. Howell
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|name=Quercus pricei
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Lobatae;Quercus agrifolia
|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. Lobatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Quercus agrifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> evergreen, to 25 m. <b>Bark</b> gray to dark brown or black, ridges broad, rounded. <b>Twigs</b> brown to red-brown, 1.5-3 mm diam., with scattered pubescence or uniformly pubescent. <b>Terminal</b> buds light chestnut brown, ovoid, occasionally subconic, 3-6(-7) mm, glabrous except for cilia along scale margins. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 4-15(-18) mm, sparsely to densely pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade broadly elliptic to ovate or oblong, 15-75 × 10-40 mm, base rounded or cordate, margins entire or spinose, with up to 24 awns, apex blunt to attenuate; surfaces abaxially glabrous or with small axillary tufts of tomentum, veins raised, adaxially distinctly convex, rugose, glabrous, occasionally densely uniformly pubescent. <b>Acorns</b> annual; cup turbinate to cup- or bowl-shaped, rarely saucer-shaped, 9-13 mm high × 9-15 mm wide, covering 1/4-1/3(-1/2) nut, outer surface glabrous to sparsely puberulent, inner surface pubescent on innermost 1/3 to uniformly pubescent, scales acute, tips loose; nut ovoid to oblong or conic, 15-35 × 10-15 mm, glabrous, scar diam. 3.5-8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early to mid spring.
|habitat=Moderately dry sites
|elevation=to 1400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Quercus agrifolia</i> is found in the Coast Ranges from Sonoma County, California, south to Baja California. Plants with densely pubescent leaves, especially abaxially, have been treated as <i>Q. agrifolia</i> var. oxyadenia.</p><!--
--><p>This species reportedly hybridizes with <i>Quercus kelloggii</i> and <i>Q. wislizenii</i>.</p><!--
--><p>The Mahuna used <i>Quercus agrifolia</i> medicinally to heal the bleeding navel of a newborn (D. E. Moerman 1986).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Quercus agrifolia
|author=
|authority=Nee.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Quercus acroglandis;Quercus agrifolia var. oxyadenia;Quercus pricei
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering early to mid spring.
|habitat=Moderately dry sites
|elevation=to 1400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Anales Ci. Nat.
|publication year=1801
|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_368.xml
|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Lobatae
|species=Quercus agrifolia
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