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|accepted_name=Quercus vacciniifolia
|accepted_authority=Hittell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Resources Calif.
|place=101. 1863
|year=1863
|other_info_on_pub=(as vaccinifolia)
}}
|common_names=Huckleberry oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Protobalanus;Quercus vacciniifolia
|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. Protobalanus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Quercus vacciniifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> low spreading to often prostrate, to 1.5 m. <b>Twigs</b> branching at 45° angles or less, reddish brown, 1-1.5 mm diam., flexible, glabrous to sparsely pubesent. <b>Terminal</b> buds conic, 2.5 mm, scales brown with ciliate margins. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5-8 mm, sparsely pubescent, flattened adaxially. <b>Leaf</b> blade oblong-ovate, 10-35 × 7-15 mm, flat, thin, leathery, base slightly rounded to acute, secondary veins inconspicuous, 6-8 pairs, branching at 45-60° angles, with weakly thickened cell walls, margins entire or indistinctly and irregularly mucronately toothed, apex acute or rarely obtuse; surfaces abaxially whitish green with waxy layer, glabrous or slightly pubescent with stellate hairs, adaxially dull gray-green, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with stellate hairs. <b>Acorns</b> solitary or rarely paired; cup shallowly saucer-shaped to slightly turbinate, 3-4 mm deep × 10-15 mm wide, scales appressed, slightly embedded, moderately silvery brown-pubescent; nut ovoid, 8-17 × 5-10 mm, apex acute; nut scar to 3 mm diam.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering in early summer.
|habitat=Dry ridges, steep slopes, and rocky areas from montane coniferous zone to near treeline
|elevation=900-2800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p>Typical high-elevation populations in the Sierra <i>Nevada</i> of California can be distinguished from all shrubby forms of <i>Quercus chrysolepis</i> by the absence of glandular trichomes and by thin cups with small nut-attachment scars. At lower elevations in northern California and southwestern Oregon, secondary contact with <i>Q. chrysolepis</i> has resulted in the formation of hybrids.</p>
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name=Quercus vacciniifolia
|authority=Kellogg
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering in early summer.
|habitat=Dry ridges, steep slopes, and rocky areas from montane coniferous zone to near treeline
|elevation=900-2800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1855
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_580.xml
|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Protobalanus
|species=Quercus vacciniifolia
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