Quercus ×neomairei A.Camus
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"Type material (LISU: 10402!), collected by Welwitsch under Quercus pubescens Brot. was labelled as “Q. toza × Q. lusitanica” by Coutinho (1888), regarding the putative hybridization between Q. pyrenaica and Quercus faginea. Sampaio (1910) named it for the first time as Q. ×welwitschii, dedicated to the collector. Later, the binomial Q. ×neomairei Camus (1937; 1938) was applied to the same specimen and was used by Vasconcellos & Franco (1954) and Franco (1990)... Despite the alleged participation of Q. faginea and Q. pyrenaica in the type specimen (LISU: 10402!), Welwitsch refers in schedulla “…frutex in sylvaticis…socialis c. Q. pedunculata et Q. lusitanica” reporting the presence of a pedunculate oak in the population. Accordingly, the studied type material presents a pubescent to glabrescent abaxial leaf surface, with a single indumentum of fasciculate trichomes and total absence of stellate ones. In addition, the plant possesses a quite short petiole and a rhomboidal leaf shape, with acute lobes, which led us to infer that it has the participation of Q. estremadurensis and not Q. faginea, besides Q. pyrenaica." cf. Vila-Viçosa, C., Capelo, J., Alves, P., Almeida, R. & Vázquez, F.M. (2022), pp 21-22.
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