Description
Stem
Oak grain in the wood and a corresponding pattern in the inner blaze.
Leaves
Oak grain in the twigs. Leaf blades about 8-21 x 1.4-4 cm, greyish green, silvery white or silvery grey on the underside. Two intramarginal veins often present, the outer one sometimes indistinct and close to the margin. Terminal buds and young shoots clothed in short, rusty brown hairs.
Flowers
Racemes +/- cylindrical. Perianth tube +/- cylindrical, not dilated in the lower half. Hypogynous gland one, horseshoe-shaped. Ovules 2 per ovary. Stigma flat.
Fruit
Fruits about 22-26 x 14-16 mm. Seeds with a marginal wing, seed + wing about 16-20 x 9-11 mm.
Seedlings
Cotyledons obovate, 3-5 veins radiate from the petiole. First pair of leaves simple, entire or more usually trilobed, underside densely clothed in pale prostrate hairs. Usually 1-6 intermediate, linear, entire leaves before the tenth leaf stage. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade usually deeply 2-5 lobed, upper surface glabrous, undersurface white or pale from numerous, prostrate hairs; lobes each with a central main vein and lateral veins. Seed germination time 20 to 97 days.
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