''Quercus crassipes'' is a species of
oak tree. It is widespread across much of Mexico from
Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into 72 municipalities; the ...
and
Hidalgo south to
Chiapas
Chiapas (; Tzotzil and 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 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 124 municipalities ...
.
[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
It is a tree up to tall with a trunk as much as in diameter. The
leaves are thick and leathery, up to long, elliptical with wavy edges no teeth or lobes.
[Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre. 1809. Plantae Aequinoctiales 2: plate 83]
drawing of ''Quercus crassipes''
References
External links
photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in 1978
crassipes
Endemic oaks of Mexico
Trees of Puebla
Plants described in 1809
Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland
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