Quercus crassipes

{{Short description|Species of oak tree}}

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| image = Quercus crassipes Humb. and Bonpl. (AM AK320390-1).jpg

| genus = Quercus

| display_parents = 2

| parent = Quercus sect. Lobatae

| species = crassipes

| authority = Bonpl.

| synonyms_ref = {{ThePlantList |id=kew-172298 |taxon=Quercus conspersa |authority=Benth.}}

| synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets = true

|Quercus castanea var. glabrata (Liebm. ex Seem.) A.DC.

|Quercus colimae Trel.

|Quercus colimae f. zauzillo Trel.

|Quercus confertifolia Bonpl.

|Quercus crassipes var. angustifolia Bonpl.

|Quercus cuajimalpana Trel.

|Quercus imbricariifolia Trel.

|Quercus mexicana Benth.

|Quercus mexicana f. angustifolia (Bonpl.) Trel.

|Quercus mexicana var. confertifolia (Bonpl.) Wenz.

|Quercus mexicana f. confertifolia (Bonpl.) Trel.

|Quercus mexicana f. glabrata (Liebm. ex Seem.) Trel.

|Quercus mexicana var. glabrata Liebm. ex Seem.

|Quercus obovalifolia E.Fourn. ex Trel.

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Jerome, D.|date=2018|title=Quercus crassipes |volume=2018|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/78812520/78812523 |access-date=10 March 2023}}

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Quercus crassipes is a species of oak tree. It is widespread across much of Mexico from Sonora and Hidalgo south to Chiapas.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/87374#page/565/mode/1up 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[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46657#page/3/mode/1up McVaugh, R. 1974. Flora Novo-Galiciana: Fagaceae. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 12(1,3): 1–93]

It is a tree up to {{Convert|17|m|abbr=off}} tall with a trunk as much as {{Convert|100|cm|abbr=off}} in diameter. The leaves are thick and leathery, up to {{Convert|10.8|cm|frac=4}} long, elliptical with wavy edges no teeth or lobes.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/279161#page/84/mode/1up Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre. 1809. Plantae Aequinoctiales 2: 37-38][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/279161#page/82/mode/1up Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre. 1809. Plantae Aequinoctiales 2: plate 83] drawing of Quercus crassipes

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