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Quercus myrtifolia (myrtle oak)

Synonyms: Quercus aquatica var. myrtifolia (homotypic); Quercus myrtifolia f. ampla; Quercus nitida (heterotypic); Quercus phellos var. arenaria; Quercus phellos var. myrtifolia (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Quercus myrtifolia (myrtle oak) is a North American species of oaks in the beech family. It is native to the southeastern United States (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina). Quercus myrtifolia is an evergreen shrub or tree sometimes as much as 12 meters (40 feet) tall. It has leaves with no teeth or lobes, hairless on the upperside and also on the underside except along the veins.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [3]  0.807
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Canaveral National Seashore II 9090 Florida, United States
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Fort Matanzas National Monument III 269 Florida, United States
Gulf Island National Seashore II 67487 Florida, Mississippi, United States
South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 20317 South Carolina, United States  

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Georgia Xeric Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Georgia)
Northern Florida Peninsula Longleaf Pine / Red Oak Woodland United States (Florida)
Western Florida Panhandle Xeric Lowland Sandhill Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Florida)

Predators

Allokermes kosztarabi (Kosztarab's gall-like coccoid)[4]
Anisota consularis[5]
Calycopis cecrops (Red-banded Hairstreak)[5]
Erynnis brizo (Sleepy Dusky Wing)[5]
Erynnis horatius (Horace's Duskywing)[5]

Range Map

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0