''Quercus mexicana'' is a species of
oak. It is widespread in eastern Mexico from
Chiapas
Chiapas (; Tzotzil language, Tzotzil and Tzeltal language, Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, ...
to
Tamaulipas.
[Romero Rangel, S., E. C. Rojas Zenteno & M. L. Aguilar Enríquez. 2002. El género ''Quercus'' (Fagaceae) en el estado de México. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 89(4): 551–593]
in Spanish, with line drawings of each species
Description
It is a
deciduous tree growing up to tall with gray
bark
Bark may refer to:
* Bark (botany), an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick
* Bark (sound), a vocalization of some animals (which is commonly the dog)
Places
* Bark, Germany
* Bark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
Arts, ...
. The
leaves
A leaf (plural, : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant plant stem, stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", wh ...
are thick and leathery, up to long, oblong or lance-shaped with no teeth or lobes.
drawing of ''Quercus mexicana''
Etymology
''Mexicana'' means 'from Mexico'.[Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. (hardback), (paperback). pp 258, 324]
References
External links
photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in 1991
mexicana
Plants described in 1809
Endemic oaks of Mexico
Trees of Chiapas
Trees of Puebla
Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland
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