| Nothofagus macrocarpa | |
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| Nothofagus macrocarpa forest on Cerro El Roble | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fagales |
| Family: | Nothofagaceae |
| Genus: | Nothofagus |
| Species: | N. macrocarpa
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| Binomial name | |
| Nothofagus macrocarpa (A.DC.) F.M.Vázquez & R.A.Rodr. (1999)[2]
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Nothofagus macrocarpa, commonly known as roble de Santiago or Santiago's oak, is a deciduous tree in the Nothofagaceae family that is endemic to the mountains of central Chile.[1]
Nothofagus macrocarpa is a tree growing 4 to 10 meters tall. It has a stout trunk, either single or with two or three growing from the base. The bark is rough and grayish brown with longitudinal and transverse cracks. It has a leafy and densely-branched crown 3 to 5 meters wide. Leaves are bright green and wavy at the edges, typically oval, and measure 13 to 45 mm long by 7 to 23 mm wide.[3]
Nothofagus macrocarpa grows at higher elevations of the Altos de Cantillana, in Melipilla Province southwest of Santiago, at approximately 2,200 meters elevation.[3] It is also found to the east in the Andes foothills of Cachapoal Province from 500 to 2,000 meters elevation.[1]
Populations on Cerro El Roble and other nearby mountains once identified as N. macrocarpa were reclassified in 2000 as a distinct species, Nothofagus rutila.[3]
It is sometimes regarded as a subspecies of Nothofagus obliqua.[4] In 2013 Heenan and Smissen proposed renaming N. macrocarpa to Lophozonia macrocarpa.[5]
