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Quercus orindensis
Quercus orindensis Dorf Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington, 412: 89. Oct 1930
- Name
- Quercus orindensis
- Rank
- Species
- 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
- 89
- Year
- 1930
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Quercus
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Pliocene
- Location
- St. Mary's College, California, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Syntypus
- Repository
- Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Repository Number
- 360-362
- Diagnosis
- Leaves obovate to obovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, narrowing gradually to an acutely acuminate base and more abruptly to an acute, pointed, sometimes prolonged apex; length from 3.5 to 6.5 cm; maximum width from 1.5 to 2.9 cm.; petiole rather thin and up to 9 mm. long; midrib rather stout, usually straight or but slightly curved; 6 to 10 pairs of slender secondaries, sub-opposite to irregularly alternate, leaving the midrib at an angle of 30° to 50° or rarely as. high as 80°, and terminating either in the marginal teeth or the sinuses between the teeth; finer venation indistinct; margin with 3 or 4 pairs of lobate teeth, though in some cases the lo bate character is not pronounced; teeth sharp-pointed and directed slightly upward; texture rather firm or sub-coriaceous as indicated by the curling of the leaves and the indistinct tertiary venation.
