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|accepted_name=Quercus myrtifolia
|accepted_authority=Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 424. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Myrtle oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
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|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Lobatae;Quercus myrtifolia
|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 myrtifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, evergreen, to 12 m. <b>Bark</b> gray and smooth distally, dark and shallowly furrowed near base. <b>Twigs</b> dark red-brown, 1-2.5(-3) mm diam., persistently pubescent, rarely almost glabrous. <b>Terminal</b> buds reddish to purplish brown, ovoid, 2-5.5 mm, glabrous or with tuft of tawny hairs at apex. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1-5 mm, glabrous, occasionally sparsely pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade elliptic to narrowly or broadly obovate, occasionally spatulate, 15-50(-70) × 10-25(-35) mm, base cuneate to rounded, margins entire, somewhat revolute, with 1-4 awns, apex obtuse or rounded; surfaces abaxially glabrous except for axillary tufts of tomentum, occasionally yellow-scurfy, adaxial surface planar, glabrous. <b>Acorns</b> biennial; cup saucer-shaped to shallowly goblet-shaped, 4-7 mm high × 8.5-14.5 mm wide, covering 1/4-1/3 nut, outer surface puberulent, inner surface half to fully pubescent, scale tips tightly appressed, acute; nut broadly ovoid to globose, 9.5-14 × 8-13 mm, glabrate, scar diam. 5-8 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dunes, hammocks, sandhills, dry sandy ridges, and oak scrub
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>This species flowers one to two weeks earlier than Q. inopina (A. F. Johnson and W. G. Abrahamson 1982).</p><!--
--><p>Quercus myrtifolia reportedly hybridizes with Q. incana (= Q. ×oviedoensis Sargent), but E. J. Palmer (1948) questioned the identification of the type specimen; the brief description by Sargent suggests that the specimen may be from an individual of Q. inopina. D. M. Hunt (1989) cited evidence of hybridization with Q. arkansana, Q. hemisphaerica, Q. inopina, Q. laurifolia, Q. marilandica, Q. nigra, and Q. pumila (Hunt suggested that the last may give rise to occasional reports of annual fruiting in Q. myrtifolia).</p>
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name=Quercus myrtifolia
|author=
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dunes, hammocks, sandhills, dry sandy ridges, and oak scrub
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated;Weedy
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|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Lobatae
|species=Quercus myrtifolia
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