Quercus oocarpa

{{Short description|Species of oak tree}}

{{Speciesbox

|image = The Central American species of Quercus (1942) (20400129340).jpg

|status = CR

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = 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. {{ISBN|9781903703281}}

|genus = Quercus

|display_parents = 2

|parent = Quercus sect. Quercus

|species = oocarpa

|authority = Liebm.

|synonyms_ref = [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-174194 The Plant List, Quercus oocarpa Liebm. ]

|synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets = true

|Quercus oöcarpa Liebm.

|Quercus glabrescens Seemen

|Quercus insignis subsp. oocarpa (Liebm.) A.E.Murray

|Quercus insignis var. oocarpa (Liebm.) A.E.Murray

|Quercus warszewiczii Liebm.

|Quercus yunckeri Trel.

|}}

}}

Quercus oocarpa is a Mesoamerican species of oak.

It is native to Central America and southern 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 {{Convert|25|m|abbr=off}} tall, evergreen or deciduous, with a trunk as much as {{Convert|100|cm|abbr=off}} in diameter. The leaves are sometimes as much as {{Convert|45|cm|abbr=on}} long, broadly egg-shaped with numerous small pointed teeth along the edges.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46657#page/67/mode/1up 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