| Quercus gambleana | |
| Author | A.Camus 1933 Bull. Soc. Bot. France 80: 354 |
| Synonyms | Cyclobalanopsis
gambleana (A.Camus) H.C.Hsu & H.Wei Jen 1976 Cyclobalanopsis dulongensis Li & H.C.Hsu 1992 Cyclobalanopsis nanchuanica (C.C.Huang) Chang 1996 Cyclobalanopsis oxyodon (Miq.) Oerst. var. tomentosa Hu oxyodon (Miq.) Oerst. var. tomentosa M. Ding & Z.K. Zhou nanchuanica C.C.Huang 1992 |
| Local names | mao
man qing gang |
| Range | S.W.China (Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang); Assam, Bangladesh; 1100-3000 m; |
| Growth habit | reaches 20 m tall; |
| Leaves | 12-20 x 2.5-5 cm; oblong-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate; base rounded or broadly cuneate; apex acuminate; densely pale brown tomentose beneath with stellate hairs; margin serrate; midrib prominent beneath; 16-24 secondary vein pairs, adaxially impressed, abaxially prominent; tertiary veins obscure beneath; petiole greyish stellate tomentose, 3-4 cm long; |
| Flowers | April-May; female inflorescences at apex of new shoots, solitary, tomentose, 1 cm long; |
| Fruits | acorn 1.5 cm in diameter, 2 cm long; ovoid to ellipsoid; hairy at first, then glabrous; enclosed 1/2 by cup; cup bowl-shaped, 1 cm long, 1.5-1.8 cm wide, outside tomentose, inside sericeous, with 5-7 concentric rings of scales with margin denticulate; scar 8 mm in diameter, slightly convex; maturing in 1 year in October-November; |
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Bark, twigs and |
twig tomentose at first, becoming glabrous, with numerous, raised, brown lenticels; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy ?; mixed mountain forests; |
| Miscellaneous | -- A. Camus = tome 1, p. 221,
n° 18; -- Sub-genus Cerris, Section Cyclobalanopsis; -- Today's Authors think that Q. ningangensis is actually a synonym of Q. gambleana. -- Related to Q.oxyodon (in fact it is the variety tomentosa of this species) |
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