{"id":12618,"date":"2020-11-10T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/betula-pendula-subsp-fontqueri-rothm-g-moreno-peinado\/"},"modified":"2021-10-22T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:37:40","slug":"betula-pendula-subsp-fontqueri-rothm-g-moreno-peinado","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/betula-pendula-subsp-fontqueri-rothm-g-moreno-peinado\/","title":{"rendered":"Betula pendula subsp. fontqueri (Rothm.) G.Moreno &#038; Peinado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deciduous tree, monoecious, up to 20 m in height, very irregular in shape, but \u00b1 ovate-conical, with straight trunk, not very thick (up to 1 m in diameter), covered by a \u00b1 smooth bark, white or ashen-whitish, peeling transversely; in older specimens the base becomes dark brown and fissured longitudinally. Branches \u00b1 extended or erect, forming a sparse crown. Branchlets of the first year \u00b1 villous; turning glabrescent, reddish-brown or ashen. Leaves (4-7 \u00d7 2-5 cm) alternate, deciduous, slightly coriaceous, ovate-rhomboidal, apiculate or ovate-triangular, with margin irregularly serrated. Leaf-blade matt green on the upper side, slightly lighter on the underside, glabrescent; petiole glabrous (1-3 cm). Male flowers in catkins (3-6 cm) solitary, geminate or ternate, cylindrical, semirigid. Female flowers in solitary catkins, formed by trilobulate scales, with 1 central lobule acute and triangular and 2 lateral rounded lobules, slightly arched backwards. Fruit a small ovoid seed, compressed, with 2 styles divergent at the tip and 2 lateral wings of roughly the same size as the seminiferous part, styles largely longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Betula pendula subsp. fontqueri","name_html":"<strong>Betula pendula<\/strong> subsp. <strong>fontqueri<\/strong> (Rothm.) G. 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In North Africa it is very rare, only growing in the central Rif (Ketama region, especially in the Tidirhin Massif).","observations":"","conservation":"A relatively common species, it does not seem threatened. In the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em> it is listed as Least Concern (LC) at global level (Stritch <em>et al<\/em>., 2014). However, subsp. <em>fontqueri<\/em> is very rare and localised, especially in North Africa, where only a few specimens still survive.","genus":false,"images":[{"ID":"29935","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-28 13:11:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-28 13:11:19","post_content":"","post_title":"Betula pendula fontqueri. 2. Emilio Laguna","post_excerpt":"Betula pendula subsp. fontqueri. Twigs with leaves and male catkins. 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