| Quercus brandisiana | |
| Author | Kurz 1873 J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 42(2): 108 1873 |
| Synonyms | Cyclobalanopsis brandisiana (Kurz) Schottky 1912 |
| Local names | |
| Range | Thailand; Laos; Myanmar; 300-1500 m; |
| Growth habit | small tree; reaches 12 m tall, with trunk to 0.4 m in diametre. |
| Leaves | 10-17 x 4.5-10
cm; oval, oboval or elliptic; weakly pointed, hard, stiff, pale green
and glabrous above, paler and greyish beneath; margins wavy or coarsely
sinuate, apically 1/2 toothed; base cuneate; 10-14 pairs of straight lateral
veins, adaxially impressed and abaxially raised, at an angle of 48-50°
with midrib; petiole 1.2-1.9 cm long, more or less tomentose; |
| Flowers | female flowers
at the base of leaves petioles, on spikes 3-3.5 cm long, with 8-10 flowers
; |
| Fruits | acorn 0.8-1.4 cm in diameter, 0.7-1 cm long; mucronate; cup sessile, 0.8-1.5 cm in diameter, with 5-7 minutely tomentose,concentric rings, covering 2/3 of the nut; early fruiting; ripe in 2 years; |
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Bark, twigs and |
blackish
bark longitudinaly fissured; branchlets greyish, pubescent,
becoming covered with lenticels; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | not
hardy; |
| Miscellaneous | --
A. Camus : tome 1, p. 354, n° 76; -- Sub-genus Cerris, Section Cyclobalanopsis; -- Section Helferiana, sub-section Subpedicellatae (Menitsky); -- Wood very hard; |
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