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|accepted_name=Quercus lyrata
|accepted_authority=Walter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Carol.,
|place=235. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=Overcup oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Quercus bicolor var. lyrata
|authority=(Walter) Dippel
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Quercus;Quercus lyrata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fagaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Quercus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Quercus sect. Quercus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Quercus lyrata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> deciduous, to 20 m. <b>Bark</b> light gray, tinged with red, with thick plates underlying scales. <b>Twigs</b> grayish or reddish, (2-)3(-4) mm diam., villous, soon glabrate. <b>Buds</b> 3 mm, gray-puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 8-20(-25) mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade obovate or broadly obovate, 100-160(-200) × 50-100(-120) mm, base narrowly cuneate to acute, margins moderately to deeply lobed, lobes somewhat to sharply angular or spatulate, often with 2-3 teeth, sinuses nearly to midrib, secondary veins arched, divergent, (3-)5-7 on each side, apex broadly rounded or ovate; surfaces abaxially light green or somewhat glaucous, tomentose, tomentum persisting or soon falling, adaxially dark green or dull gray, sparsely puberulent to glabrate. <b>Acorns</b> 1-2 on axillary peduncles to 40 mm; cup goblet-shaped, burlike, or spheroid, 15-20 mm deep × 20-30 mm wide, usually completely enclosing nut or merely apex visible, rarely enclosing only 1/2 nut, orifice smaller than nut diameter, often splitting irregularly at maturity, scales closely appressed, especially about margin, laterally connate, broadly triangular, keeled-tuberculate, finely grayish tomentose; nut light brown or grayish, ovoid-ellipsoid or oblong, (15-)25-50 × (10-)20-40 mm, finely puberulent or floccose. <b>Cotyledons</b> distinct.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Bottoms, lowlands, wet forest, streamside forests, swamp forests, periodically inundated areas
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>The large acorns with hardened cups that enclose all or most of the nut are diagnostic.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Quercus lyrata
|authority=Walter
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Quercus bicolor var. lyrata
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Bottoms, lowlands, wet forest, streamside forests, swamp forests, periodically inundated areas
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Carol.,
|publication year=1788
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_627.xml
|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Quercus
|species=Quercus lyrata
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