View source for Quercus depressipes

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|accepted_name=Quercus depressipes
|accepted_authority=Trelease
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci.
|place=20: 90. 1924
|year=1924
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|common_names=Depressed oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Species
|authority=C. H. Muller
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|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Quercus;Quercus depressipes
|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 depressipes]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> evergreen or subevergreen, low, to 1 m, often forming dense thickets, rhizomatous. <b>Bark</b> gray, scaly. <b>Twigs</b> tan-brown, becoming reddish gray, 1-1.5 mm diam., glabrate or hairy. <b>Buds</b> tan or brown, subglobose, 1-1.5 mm, glabrate or scales inconspicuously ciliate. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1-2 mm, rarely longer. <b>Leaf</b> blade oblong to elliptic, 10-25(-60) × 8-25 mm, thick, leathery, base moderately to deeply cordate, petiole strongly depressed in basal sinus, margins inconspicuously toothed in distal 1/2, rarely entire, sometimes sublobate, somewhat revolute, secondary veins 5 or 6 on each side with few intermediates, branching, apex broadly rounded to subacute; surfaces abaxially dull gray-green or glaucous, completely glabrous or with a few stellate hairs on midrib, adaxially similar to abaxial surface, secondary veins somewhat raised on both surfaces. <b>Acorns</b> paired on peduncle 7-15 mm; cup 4-7 mm deep × 8-13 mm wide, goblet-shaped, enclosing 1/4-1/2 nut, base somewhat constricted or rounded, scales moderately tuberculate, proximally densely gray-tomentose, tips rather closely appressed, reddish brown, abaxially glabrous, ciliate; nut tan-brown, elliptic to ovoid or globose, to 10-15 × 10-11 mm, apex rounded, glabrous. <b>Cotyledons</b> connate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Grassland and open wooded slopes
|elevation=2100-2600 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango;and Zacatecas).
|discussion=<p>Quercus depressipes enters the United States in only one population on the highest portion of Mt. Livermore in trans-Pecos Texas; it has a wider distribution in the dry altiplano of northern Mexico. Its most distinctive characteristics are the combination of dwarf clonal habit, small glaucous leaves without spinose teeth, and connate cotyledons. In northern Mexico, it hybridizes locally with Q. rugosa.</p>
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name=Quercus depressipes
|author=
|authority=Trelease
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Species
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Grassland and open wooded slopes
|elevation=2100-2600 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango;and Zacatecas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1924
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Quercus
|species=Quercus depressipes
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