Quercus coffeicolor is a species of oak. It is native to Nayarit, Sinaloa, and Jalisco in western Mexico.
Trelease in 1924Trelease, William 1924. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 20: 137-138 simultaneously published three names for what nearly all present-day botanists consider to be one species. Some publications have referred to this taxon as Quercus prainiana but this name turns out to have been used earlier, in 1913,Léveillé, Augustine Abel Hector. 1913. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 12(330–332): 363 description in Latin, commentary in French applied to an Asian species now called Quercus helferiana. Hence this name is not available for the Mexican trees. Instead, more recent authors been using one of Trelease's other names, Quercus coffeicolor.
The species is placed in section Lobatae.
Description Quercus coffeicolor is a tree up to tall, with a trunk up to in diameter. The leaves are elliptical, up to 12 cm long, wavy edges but no teeth or lobes.McVaugh, R. 1974. Flora Novo-Galiciana: Fagaceae. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 12:71-73 in English, with line drawing on page 72, as Quercus prainiana
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External links photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Sinaloa in 1897