Quercus hintonii is a rare species of oak. It is endemic to the central Mexican State of Mexico.Romero Rangel, S., E. C. Rojas Zenteno & M. L. Aguilar Enríquez. 2002. El género Quercus (Fagaceae) en el estado de México. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 89(4): 551–593 in Spanish, with line drawings of each species
It is a deciduous tree growing up to tall with a trunk as much as in diameter. The leaves are thick and leathery, up to 21 cm long, elliptical or egg-shaped, very often with no teeth or lobes but sometimes with a few pointed teeth.Warburg, Edmund Frederic 1939. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1939: 91
The species is threatened by habitat loss.
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