Quercus merrillii
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
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|image =
| status= VU
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = Carrero, C. & Strijk, J.S. 2020. Quercus merrillii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T78969610A184348501. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T78969610A184348501.en. Accessed 8 March 2023.
|genus = Quercus
|display_parents = 2
|parent = Quercus sect. Cyclobalanopsis
|species = merrillii
|authority = Seemen 1908
|synonyms_ref = [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-173909 The Plant List, Quercus merrillii Seemen]
|synonyms = *Cyclobalanopsis merrillii (Seemen) Schottky
}}
Quercus merrillii is an Asian species of shrubs in the beech family Fagaceae. It has been found on the Island of Palawan in southwestern Philippines and also in the Malaysian parts of the nearby Island of Borneo (both Sarawak and Sabah).[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/232354#page/30/mode/1up Seemen, Karl Otto von 1908. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 5: 21] parallel descriptions in Latin and German It is placed in subgenus Cerris, section Cyclobalanopsis.{{Cite web |last1=Denk |first1=Thomas |last2=Grimm |first2=Guido W. |last3=Manos |first3=Paul S. |last4=Deng |first4=Min |last5=Hipp |first5=Andrew L. |date=2017 |title=Appendix 2.1: An updated infrageneric classification of the oaks |website=figshare |doi=10.6084/m9.figshare.5547622.v1 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_2_1_________An_updated_infrageneric_classification_of_the_oaks/5547622/1 |access-date=2023-02-24 |format=xls |name-list-style=amp }}
Description
Range and habitat
Quercus merillii is known from only a few locations in Borneo – Sabah and Sarawak states of Malaysia, and Kalimantan in Indonesia – and on Palawan in the Philippines, where it grows in lowland dipterocarp forests.
Its lowland forests habitats are threatened habitat loss from timber harvesting and conversion to agriculture.
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Category:Plants described in 1908
Category:Flora of the Borneo lowland rain forests
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