Quercus robur
Quercus robur
Ssp pedunculiflora: Akmeşe; Ssp robur: Saplı meşe
Deciduous tree to c. 25 m, wide-spreading at top; young shoots glabrous or pubescent, light brown to reddish-brown; buds to 4 mm, glabrous, ciliate-margined or tomentose, reddish-brown. Leaves usually crowded at apex of shoots, obovate, to c. 20 x 9 cm, sessile and auriculate or stalked, with 5-8 entire, irregularly rounded, deep lobes, occasionally with secondary lobes; primary veins 5-9, intercalary veins also present; indumentum of dendroid-stellate hairs, ± dense beneath or occasionally sparse, greyish or yellowish-green, glabrous above or with some stellate hairs, rarely glabrous on both surfaces. Peduncle 4-12 em. Cupule hemispherical, rarely cyathiform, 15-20 mm diam., greyish-brown; scales concentric, concrescent except for triangular reddish apices, flat or convex; acorn 1/2-2/3 exserted.
1. Leaves subsessile, with a broad sinus; peduncle 4-10 cm, ± slender subsp. robur
1. Leaves with a distinct petiole to 2 em, and with a narrow sinus; peduncle 2-6 cm, ± stout subsp. pedunculiflora
