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|accepted_name=Quercus palmeri
|accepted_authority=Engelmann in S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in S. Watson, Bot. California
|place=2: 97. 1880
|year=1880
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|common_names=Palmer 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=Kellogg ex Curran
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|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Protobalanus;Quercus palmeri
|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 palmeri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Small </b>trees and shrubs, to 2-3 m. <b>Twigs</b> rigid, divaricately branched at 65-90° angles, reddish brown, 1.5-3 mm diam., pubescent, sparsely so in 2d year. <b>Terminal</b> buds ovoid, 1-1.5 mm, apex rounded, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2-5 mm, round in cross section, glabrous to sparsely fasciculate-pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade suborbiculate, elliptic to round-ovate, 20-30(-50) × 20-40 mm, crisped, leathery and brittle, base obtuse to strongly subcordate, secondary veins 5-8(-12) pairs, each terminating in spine, basal pairs recurving, others branching at 45° angles, raised abaxially, margins spinose-dentate to occasionally entire, with highly thickened cell walls, spines cartilaginous, (1-)1.5-2 mm, apex broadly rounded or subacute, spinose; surfaces abaxially glaucous with waxy layer, often obscured by golden brown glandular hairs, adaxially grayish dark green, scurfy with fasciculate erect and twisting hairs. <b>Acorns</b> solitary or rarely paired; cup turbinate to saucer-shaped, margins involute, often irregular, 7-10 mm deep × 10-25(-35) mm wide, scales appressed, embedded, often appearing laterally connate into concentric rings with only tip of scale visible, tuberculate, densely golden-tomentose throughout; nut oblong to fusiform, 20-30 × 10-15 mm, apex acute.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering in spring.
|habitat=Disjunct in canyons, mountain washes, dry thickets, and margins of chapparal communities
|elevation=700-1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Mexico (n Baja California).
|discussion=<p>Populations of Quercus palmeri are often small and may exist as single clones. The disjunct populations of California and Baja California are consistent morphologically. In Arizona populations, individuals tend to have flatter leaves bearing fewer teeth; this distinction is not constant, however. Morphologically aberrant populations identified as Q. palmeri in eastern Arizona (Chiracahua, Huachuca, and Santa Catalina mountains) and southwestern New Mexico are most likely the result of introgression from Q. palmeri to Q. chrysolepis (J. M. Tucker and H. S. Haskell 1960). Those populations tend to be intermediate in overall morphology, but all lack the diagnostic trichomes and biochemical markers of Q. palmeri; they are best classified as Q. chrysolepis affinity Q. palmeri.</p>
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name=Quercus palmeri
|author=
|authority=Engelmann in S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Species
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering in spring.
|habitat=Disjunct in canyons, mountain washes, dry thickets, and margins of chapparal communities
|elevation=700-1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Mexico (n Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=in S. Watson, Bot. California
|publication year=1880
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Protobalanus
|species=Quercus palmeri
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