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Quercus hannibalii
Quercus hannibalii Dorf Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington, 412: 86. Oct 1930
- Name
- Quercus hannibalii
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- hannibali
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Quercus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Dorf E.
- Publication
- Pliocene floras of California [1930/10]
- Journal
- Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Volume
- 412
- Page number
- 86
- Year
- 1930
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Quercus
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Pliocene
- Location
- Calabazas Canyon and St. Mary's College, California, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Syntypus
- Repository
- Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Repository Number
- 352-356
- Diagnosis
- Leaves usually ovate to orbicular at the one extreme and slightly obovate at the other, narrowing rather abruptly, or in some cases gradually, to a rounded or slightly cuneate base; tip varying from abruptly acumirrate or cuspidate to elongate acuminate; length from 1 to 4.4 cm; maximum width from 0.8 to 1.9 cm., average dimensions of the most common type (entire, ovate; see plate 8, fig. 9) 1.3 by 2.9 cm.; petiole short and stout, 2 or 3 nim. long; midrib stout; 5 to 12 pairs of prominent, parallel to sub-parallel secondaries, sub-opposite to alternate, diverging from the midrib at an angle of 60° to 80° (in a few instances as high as 90°), terminating in the marginal teeth or, in the entire-margined forms, turning abruptly upward near the border; tertiary venation indistinct; margin commonly entire though sometimes partly to completely dentate or sinuatedentate, the teeth usually sharply pointed outward; texture coriaceous. There are several obscure impressions of acorn cups which may be referable to this species.
