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|accepted_name=Quercus chihuahuensis
|accepted_authority=Trelease
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci.
|place=20: 85. 1924
|year=1924
}}
|common_names=Chihuahua oak;felt oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Quercus infralutea
|authority=Trelease
|rank=species
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|name=Quercus jaliscensis
|authority=Trelease
|rank=species
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|name=Quercus santaclarensis
|authority=C. H. Muller
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Quercus;Quercus chihuahuensis
|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 chihuahuensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, deciduous, to 10 m. <b>Bark</b> gray, furrowed, checkered, or scaly. <b>Twigs</b> gray, 2-3(-4) mm diam., densely tomentose. <b>Buds</b> reddish brown, broadly ovoid, distally rounded, 2-2.5 mm, densely yellowish pubescent; scales gray-puberulent; stipules persistent, 1-4, subulate, pubescent, at base of terminal buds. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 3-5(-8) mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade elliptic or oblong to ovate or obovate, (25-)40-50(-85) × (18-)20-30(-50) mm, base rounded or shallowly cordate, margins entire or toothed to sublobate, secondary veins 8 to 10 on each side, somewhat branching, apex broadly rounded to acute; surfaces abaxially yellowish or grayish, densely stellate with velvety hairs, adaxially green, sparsely soft-pubescent with prominent, spreading, stellate hairs, felty to touch, secondary veins somewhat prominent on both surfaces, even under dense tomentum. <b>Acorns</b> 1-3 on tomentose peduncle 15-35(-60) mm; cup hemispheric, 7-10 mm deep × 10-15 mm wide, enclosing 1/2 nut, scales proximally thickened, distally appressed, densely gray-puberulent, tips reddish, ultimately glabrate; nut ovoid, 14-18 × 10-12 mm, puberulent, eventually glabrate. <b>Cotyledons</b> connate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Oak and pinyon-juniper woodlands, grassy hills, sometimes extending into dry thorn scrub and bursera woodland (Mexico)
|elevation=400-2000 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Sonora;Zacatecas;and San Luis Potosí).
|discussion=<p><i>Quercus chihuahuensis</i> is a distinctive species throughout its range, mostly in dry montane western Mexico; it occurs in the United States only as putative hybrids with <i>Q. grisea</i> (the Eagle and Quitman mountains) and <i>Q. arizonica</i> (Hueco Tanks) in Texas.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Quercus chihuahuensis
|authority=Trelease
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Quercus infralutea;Quercus jaliscensis;Quercus santaclarensis
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Oak and pinyon-juniper woodlands, grassy hills, sometimes extending into dry thorn scrub and bursera woodland (Mexico)
|elevation=400-2000 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Sonora;Zacatecas;and San Luis Potosí).
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1924
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_607.xml
|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Quercus
|species=Quercus chihuahuensis
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