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Santiago's Oak
Nothofagus macrocarpa
Lophozonia macrocarpa (roble de Santiago, Santiago's oak) is a deciduous tree or shrub in the Nothofagaceae family that is endemic to the mountains of central Chile. It is sometimes regarded as a subspecies of Lophozonia obliqua. L. macrocarpa was known as Nothofagus macrocarpa prior to 2013.
From the article Nothofagus macrocarpa on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Nothofagus macrocarpa is a tree growing 4 to 10 meters tall. It has a stout trunk, either single or with two or three growing from the base. The bark is rough and grayish brown with longitudinal and transverse cracks. It has a leafy and densely-branched crown 3 to 5 meters wide. Leaves are bright green and wavy at the edges, typically oval, and measure 13 to 45 mm long by 7 to 23 mm wide.
Range & habitat
Nothofagus macrocarpa grows at higher elevations of the Altos de Cantillana, in Melipilla Province southwest of Santiago, at approximately 2,200 meters elevation. It is also found to the east in the Andes foothills of Cachapoal Province from 500 to 2,000 meters elevation. Populations on Cerro El Roble and other nearby mountains once identified as N. macrocarpa were reclassified in 2000 as a distinct species, Nothofagus rutila.
Wikipedia: “Range and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 732702.