Quercus boyntonii Beadle (1901:47)
Boynton's sand post oak, Alabama sandstone oak, Boynton sandstone oak
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Quercus stellata var. boyntonii (Beadle) Sarg. in Bot. Gaz. 65: 437 (1918)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1953 or later
Rediscovered in 1995
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
Alabama & Texas, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). (1997). Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 3. Magnoliophyta: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. Oxford Univ. Press, New York. xxiii + 590 pp.
Jerome, Diana, Beckman, Emily, Kenny, Lisa, Wenzell, Katherine, Kua, Chai-Shian and Westwood, Murphy. (2017). The Red List of US Oaks. Lisle, Illinois: The Morton Arboretum. 60 pp.
Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
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Muller, C. H. (1951). The oaks of Texas. Contributions Texas Research Foundation 1(3): 21-311.
Muller, C. H. (1956). The distribution of Quercus boyntonii. Madrono 13: 221-225.
NatureServe. (2024). Quercus boyntonii, Boynton's Sand Post Oak. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed 11 July 2024]
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POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 11 July 2024]
Trelease, W. (1924). The American oaks. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 20. 255 pp. + 420 plates.
Walter, Kerry Scott and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp. ["Ex/E" (p. 278)]