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Quercus oocarpa
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<h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p><i>Quercus oocarpa</i> is a large forest tree frequently more than 25 metres (82 feet) tall, <a href="/facts/Evergreen/bcLptUdV">evergreen</a> or <a href="/facts/Deciduous/7jQHVtdd">deciduous</a>, with a trunk as much as 100 centimetres (39 inches) in diameter. The <a href="/facts/Leaves/1m6wCNTg">leaves</a> are sometimes as much as 45 cm (18 in) long, broadly egg-shaped with numerous small pointed teeth along the edges.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="range-and-habitat">Range and habitat</h2> <p><i>Quercus oocarpa</i> ranges from southwestern Mexico (<a href="/facts/Nayarit/jdd96oGP">Nayarit</a>, <a href="/facts/Jalisco/AEPhKbol">Jalisco</a>, and <a href="/facts/Guerrero/xwDwQMFI">Guerrero</a> states, and possibly <a href="/facts/Chiapas/VS9UF8pw">Chiapas</a>), through Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica to Panama. Some specimens of <i><a href="/facts/Quercus_insignis/x0VJgd37">Quercus insignis</a></i> M.Martens & Galeotti from Chiapas have been confused with this species.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>It inhabits humid montane forests, including cloud forests and pine–oak–<i><a href="/facts/Liquidambar_styraciflua/vLfcbxd9">Liquidambar</a></i> forests, between 1400 and 2000 meters elevation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>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 <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46657#page/67/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46657#page/67/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Muller, C. H. 1942. The Central American species of Quercus. United States Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Plant Industry. Miscellaneous Publication 477: 1–216 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>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 <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46657#page/67/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46657#page/67/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>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 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>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 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>