Biology:Quercus sadleriana

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Short description: Species of oak tree

Quercus sadleriana
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fagales
Family: Fagaceae
Genus: Quercus
Subgenus: Quercus subg. Quercus
Section: Quercus sect. Ponticae
Species:
Q. sadleriana
Binomial name
Quercus sadleriana
R.Br.ter

Quercus sadleriana is a species of oak known by the common names Sadler's oak and deer oak. It is native to southwestern Oregon and far northern California in the Klamath Mountains.[2] It grows in coniferous forests.[3] It is placed in section Ponticae.[4]

Description

Quercus sadleriana is an evergreen[3] shrub growing 1 to 3 meters (3 12 to 10 feet) tall from a root network with rhizomes. The leaves are reminiscent of chestnut leaves, oval with toothed edges and rounded, faintly pointed ends. The fruit is an acorn with a cap between 1 and 2 centimetres (12 and 34 inch) wide and a spherical or egg-shaped, round-ended nut up to 2 cm (34 in) long.[5][6]

References

  1. Beckman , E. (2016). "Quercus sadleriana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/78972401/78972404#assessment-information. Retrieved 21 November 2022. 
  2. "Quercus sadleriana", County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) (Biota of North America Program (BONAP)), 2014, http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Quercus%20sadleriana.png 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Quercus sadleriana", Calflora: Information on California plants for education, research and conservation, with data contributed by public and private institutions and individuals, including the Consortium of California Herbaria, Berkeley, California: The Calflora Database, https://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Quercus+sadleriana 
  4. Denk, Thomas; Grimm, Guido W.; Manos, Paul S.; Deng, Min; Hipp, Andrew L. (2017). "Appendix 2.1: An updated infrageneric classification of the oaks" (xls). https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_2_1_________An_updated_infrageneric_classification_of_the_oaks/5547622/1. 
  5. Nixon, Kevin C. (1997), "Quercus sadleriana", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA), 3, New York and Oxford, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233501081 
  6. Brown, Robert (of Campster). 1871. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 4, volume 7: 249-250

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3768940 entry