''Quercus oocarpa'' is a Mesoamerican species of

oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ''L ...

. It is native to Central America and eastern Mexico, with an isolated population in the canyons of Jalisco in western Mexico.Muller, C. H. 1942. The Central American species of ''Quercus''. United States Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Plant Industry. Miscellaneous Publication 477: 1–216

Description

''Quercus oocarpa'' is a large forest tree frequently more than tall,

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deciduous In the fields of horticulture and Botany, the term ''deciduous'' () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, ...

, with a trunk as much as in diameter. The leaves are sometimes as much as long, broadly egg-shaped with numerous small pointed teeth along the edges.McVaugh, R. 1974. Flora Novo-Galiciana: Fagaceae. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 12:63-64
in English, with line drawing on page 64

Habitat

It inhabits humid montane forests, including cloud forests and pine–oak–''Liquidambar'' forests, between 1400 and 2000 meters elevation.Mario González-Espinosa, Jorge A. Meave, Francisco G. Lorea-Hernández, Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez and Adrian C. Newton, eds (2011). ''The Red List of Mexican Cloud Forest Trees''. Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK. 2011.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15339065 oocarpa Trees of Central America Trees of Southeastern Mexico Trees of Southwestern Mexico Plants described in 1854 Oaks of Mexico Flora of the Sierra Madre del Sur Flora of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca Sierra Madre de Chiapas Chiapas Highlands Flora of the Central American montane forests Chiapas montane forests