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|accepted_name=Quercus michauxii
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 215. 1818
|year=1818
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|common_names=Basket oak;cow oak;swamp chestnut oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Quercus houstoniana
|authority=C. H. Muller
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Quercus;Quercus michauxii
|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 michauxii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> deciduous, to 20 m. <b>Bark</b> light brown or gray, scaly. <b>Twigs</b> brown or reddish brown, 2-3 mm diam., with sparse spreading hairs or glabrate. <b>Buds</b> reddish brown, ovoid, apex rounded or acute, glabrous or minutely puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5-20 mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade broadly obovate or broadly elliptic, (60-)100-280 × 50-180 mm, base rounded-acuminate or broadly cuneate, margins regularly toothed, teeth rounded, dentate, or acuminate, secondary veins 15-20 on each side, parallel, straight or somewhat curved, apex broadly rounded or acuminate; surfaces abaxially light green or yellowish, felty to touch because of conspicuous or minute, erect, 1-4-rayed hairs, adaxially glabrous or with minute simple or fascicled hairs. <b>Acorns</b> 1-3, subsessile or more often on axillary peduncle to 20-30 mm; cup hemispheric, broadly hemispheric or even short-cylindric, 15-25 mm deep × 25-40 mm wide, enclosing 1/2 nut or more, scales very loosely appressed, distinct to base, gray or light brown, moderately to heavily tuberculate, tips silky-tomentose; nut light brown, ovoid or cylindric, 25-35 × 20-25 mm, glabrous. <b>Cotyledons</b> distinct.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early–late spring.
|habitat=Bottomlands, rich sandy woods and swamps, on variety of soils
|elevation=0-600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Quercus michauxii</i> is easily distinguished from other chestnut-leaved oaks by the felty hairs of the abaxial leaf surface and rather large acorn cups with attenuate-acute, loose scales. This species is no longer extant in Oklahoma. Historical reports from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York have not been confirmed; possibly populations are no longer extant. (See <i>Quercus montana</i> for a discussion of nomenclature and the uncertain application of the name Q. prinus).</p>
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name=Quercus michauxii
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Quercus houstoniana
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering early–late spring.
|habitat=Bottomlands, rich sandy woods and swamps, on variety of soils
|elevation=0-600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_754.xml
|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Quercus
|species=Quercus michauxii
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