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|accepted_name=Quercus pacifica
|accepted_authority=Nixon & C. H. Muller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=4: 391. 1994
|year=1994
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Quercus dumosa var. polycarpa
|authority=Greene
}}
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Quercus;Quercus pacifica
|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 pacifica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> rarely small trees, subevergreen, shrubs to 2 m, trees to 5 m or taller. <b>Bark</b> scaly on older branches and trunk. <b>Twigs</b> brownish or reddish, minutely puberulent, becoming glabrate and gray with age. <b>Buds</b> light or chestnut brown, ovate or globose, 2-3 × 1-2 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2-5 mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade obovate or oblong, planar to moderately convex or undulate, 15-40 × 7-20(-40) mm, base cuneate or rounded, attenuate-decurrent along petiole, margins minutely cartilaginous, entire or with 1-5 irregular teeth on each side, secondary veins obscure, 1-5 on each side, apex blunt or rounded, occasionally subacute with mucronate tip; surfaces abaxially waxy, glandular, with scattered minute, flat, appressed, ± 8-rayed stellate hairs, not obscuring surface, adaxially green, glossy, glabrate or with minute, scattered, stellate hairs. <b>Acorns</b> paired or solitary in leaf axil, subsessile, rarely pedunculate in teratological forms; cup hemispheric to turbinate, to 15 mm deep × 20 mm wide, enclosing only 1/4-1/2 nut, scales moderately to heavily tuberculate, irregularly formed; nut light brown, acute-cylindric or fusiform, tapered, (15-)20-30 × (6-)9-15 m, apex acute, glabrate. <b>Cotyledons</b> distinct.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Chaparral, oak woodlands, margins of grasslands, understory in closed-cone pine stands
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Quercus pacifica</i> is endemic on three of the California Channel Islands: Santa Cruz, Santa Catalina, and Santa <i>Rosa</i>. It is not known from the mainland, but it bears a superficial similarity to some of the tree forms that are putative hybrids between <i>Q. engelmannii</i> and <i>Q. cornelius-mulleri</i> in San Diego County. The latter populations, sometimes treated as Q. ×acutidens, differ in having much greater variability in leaf shape; thicker, more leathery leaves; denser abaxial leaf vestiture; much smaller hairs, having more than 10 rays; and variable levels of connation of cotyledons (always distinct in <i>Q. pacifica</i>). <i>Quercus pacifica</i> appears to be most closely related to <i>Q. douglasii</i>, whether by direct descent or by introgression with another species no longer extant on the islands.</p><!--
--><p><i>Quercus</i> ×macdonaldii Greene (as a species) [= <i>Quercus dumosa</i> var. macdonaldii (Greene) Jepson] is a stabilized hybrid complex between <i>Quercus pacifica</i> and <i>Q. lobata</i> Née. The plants tend to be small to moderate trees with leaves that resemble those of <i>Q. lobata</i>; the leaves are much more shallowly lobed and always less than two-thirds the distance from the margin to the midrib. <i>Quercus</i> ×macdonaldii is known from Santa <i>Rosa</i>, Santa Cruz, and Santa Catalina islands.</p>
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name=Quercus pacifica
|author=
|authority=Nixon & C. H. Muller
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Quercus dumosa var. polycarpa
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Chaparral, oak woodlands, margins of grasslands, understory in closed-cone pine stands
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=1994
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Quercus
|species=Quercus pacifica
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