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|accepted_name=Quercus laurifolia
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Chênes Amér., no.
|place=10, plate 17. 1801
|year=1801
}}
|common_names=Swamp laurel oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Quercus obtusa
|authority=(Willdenow) Ashe
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|name=Quercus rhombica
|authority=Sargent
}}
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Lobatae;Quercus laurifolia
|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 laurifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> tardily deciduous, to 40 m. <b>Bark</b> dark brown to black, ridges flat, furrows deep. <b>Twigs</b> red-brown, (1-)1.5-2.5 mm diam., glabrous. <b>Terminal</b> buds dark red-brown, ovoid to subconic, 2.5-6 mm, distinctly 5-angled in cross section, glabrous or with tuft of reddish hairs at apex. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1.5-5 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blade rhombic or broadly elliptic to obovate, occasionally oblong or spatulate, 30-120 × 15-45 mm, thin, base attenuate or cuneate, rarely obtuse, margins entire with 1 apical awn, apex obtuse or rounded; surfaces abaxially glabrous, adaxially glabrous, veins raised. <b>Acorns</b> biennial; cup shallowly saucer-shaped to deeply bowl-shaped, 3.5-9 mm high × 11-17 mm wide, covering 1/4-1/2 nut, outer surface puberulent, inner surface pubescent at least 1/2 distance to rim, scale tips appressed, acute or attenuate; nut globose or ovoid, 8.5-16 × 10-16 mm, glabrate, scar diam. 6.5-11.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Sandy flood plains and bottoms, riverbanks, and terraces, occasionally on poorly drained uplands
|elevation=0-150 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Quercus laurifolia</i> apparently flowers two weeks earlier than sympatric <i>Quercus hemisphaerica</i> (W. H. Duncan and M. B. Duncan 1988). It reportedly hybridizes with <i>Q. falcata</i>, <i>Q. incana</i>, and <i>Q. nigra</i> (H. A. Fowells 1965); with <i>Q. hemisphaerica</i>, <i>Q. marilandica</i>, <i>Q. myrtifolia</i>, <i>Q. phellos</i>, and <i>Q. shumardii</i> (D. M. Hunt 1989); and with <i>Q. velutina</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Quercus laurifolia
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Quercus obtusa;Quercus rhombica
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Sandy flood plains and bottoms, riverbanks, and terraces, occasionally on poorly drained uplands
|elevation=0-150 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Hist. Chênes Amér., no.
|publication year=1801
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated;Weedy
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_903.xml
|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Lobatae
|species=Quercus laurifolia
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