Quercus crassipes
{{Short description|Species of oak tree}}
{{Speciesbox
| 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.
}}
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
}}
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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- [http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100011969 photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in 1978]
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Category:Endemic oaks of Mexico
Category:Trees of Northern America
Category:Plants described in 1809
Category:Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland
Category:Flora of the Sierra Madre Oriental
Category:Flora of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca
Category:Flora of the Sierra Madre del Sur
Category:Flora of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
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