querciform

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"AGLAOMORPHIA, [...] Sori non-indusiate, rotundate, [...] Fronds coriaceous, dimorphous, the sterile sessile querciform, brown rigid; [...]"
"DYNARIA. A genus of polypodiaceous ferns, generally distinguishable by the productino of two separate kinds of fronds: the one pinnate or pinnatifid in the usual way, [...] the other [...] lobed at the edge so as to resemble the leaf of an oak, whence they are called querciform. [...] its dwarfed querciform sterile fronds. [...] the fronds of this species being sessile and querciform at the base, [...]"
"Dr . M. DEBEY has recently published a fine memoir on some querciform leaves found in the sand rocks of Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia."
"Querciform leaves deeply dentate, lower surface and stems with scattered large 1 cm. spines."

Either formed in English from Latin quercus (“oak”) + -iform, parallel to taxonomic Latin querciformis, or formed in (taxonomic) Latin and borrowed into English.