Quercus trojana


Quercus trojana, the Macedonian oak is an oak in the 'turkey oak section' (Quercus sect. Cerris).

Macedonian oak
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Scientific classification edit
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Quercus trojana range.svg
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It is native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia, from southern Italy east across the southern Balkans to western Turkey, growing at low to moderate altitudes (up to 1,550 metres or 5,090 feet in the south of the range in southwestern Turkey), in dry areas.[3][4][5]

DescriptionEdit

Quercus trojana is a small to medium-sized tree reaching 10–20 metres (33–66 feet) tall, late deciduous to semi-evergreen, with gray-green leaves 3–7 centimetres (1+142+34 inches) long and 1.5–4 cm broad with a coarsely serrated margin with sharply pointed teeth. The acorns are 2–4 cm long when mature (about 18 months after pollination) and largely enclosed in the scaly acorn cup.[6]

Fossil recordEdit

Fossils of Quercus trojana have been described from the fossil flora of Kızılcahamam district in Turkey, which is of early Pliocene age.[7]

ReferencesEdit

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  3. Christensen, Knud Ib. 1997. Flora Hellenica 1: 45
  4. Altervista Flora Italiana, Quercus trojana Webb
  5. Jerzy Zieliński, Ana Petrova and Dominik Tomaszewski 2006. Quercus trojana subsp. yaltirikii (Fagaceae), a New Subspecies from Southern Turkey. Willdenowia 36:845-849
  6. Webb, Philip Barker 1839.
  7. Kasaplıgil, Baki (1977). "Ankara, Kızılcahamam yakınındaki Güvem köyü civarında bulunan son tersiyer kozalaklı-yeşil yapraklı ormanı" [A Late-Tertiary Conifer-Hardwood Forest From the Vicinity of Güvem Village, Near Kızılcahamam, Ankara] (PDF). Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration (in Türkçe and English). Ankara: General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration. 88: 94-102.

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