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|accepted_name=Quercus oglethorpensis
|accepted_authority=Duncan
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. Midl. Naturalist
|place=24: 755. 1940
|year=1940
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|common_names=Oglethorpe oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Quercus;Quercus oglethorpensis
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|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> deciduous, to 18(-25) m. <b>Bark</b> light gray or whitish, scaly. <b>Twigs</b> brownish red, ca. 1 mm diam., sparsely pubescent, glabrate with age. <b>Buds</b> reddish brown, globose, to 2-2.5 mm, sparsely pubescent or glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2-7 mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, ± planar, not strongly convexly cupped, 50-150 × 20-45 mm, base cuneate to cordate, margins entire or on vigorous shoots sometimes sinuate near apex, secondary veins 3-5 on each side, apex rounded, obtuse or broadly acute; surfaces abaxially yellowish green, covered with persistent velvety branched hairs, adaxially dark green, dull or glossy, sparsely stellate, often somewhat sandpapery with harsh hairs. <b>Acorns</b> 1-2, subsessile or on peduncle to 7 mm; cup turbinate, somewhat constricted proximally, 8 mm deep × 10 mm wide, enclosing 1/3 nut or more, scales closely appressed, finely tan-pubescent; nut gray brown, ovoid, 9-11 × (5-)7-9 mm, finely puberulent. <b>Cotyledons</b> distinct.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Alluvial flatwoods and streamsides in rich woods, low pastures, and edge of bottomland forests
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Since its original discovery in 1940 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, <i>Quercus oglethorpensis</i> has been found to be more common locally near the type site in Georgia and South Carolina than originally thought. It remains one of the least-known oak species of the southeastern United States. <i>Quercus oglethorpensis</i> is one of our most distinctive eastern oaks, easily recognized by its narrow, entire, abaxially felty leaves.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=haenhle1985a
|text=Haenhle, G. G. and S. M. Jones. 1985. Geographical distribution of Quercus oglethorpensis. Castanea 50: 26-31.
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name=Quercus oglethorpensis
|author=
|authority=Duncan
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Alluvial flatwoods and streamsides in rich woods, low pastures, and edge of bottomland forests
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.
|reference=haenhle1985a
|publication title=Amer. Midl. Naturalist
|publication year=1940
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Quercus
|species=Quercus oglethorpensis
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