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Quercus longispica
Author (Hand.-Mazz.) A. Camus 1934
Synonyms Q. semecarpifolia var. longispica Hand.-Mazz. 1929
Q. semecarpifolia Franchet p.p. 1899
Local names
Range China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
Growth habit to 25 m;
Leaves

5.5-8 cm x 2.5-4 cm; evergreen; coriaceous; obovate-subelliptic or subelliptic; base round; apex round or with a blunty tip; margin revolute, entire or sometimes with spiny teeth; adaxial face at first yellow-brown pubescent, then glabrous; abaxially with a yellow-brown tomentum, made of simple glandular hairs and fasciate ones, not covering the secondary veins or very slightly; 7-9 lateral veins pairs impressed above, raised underneath; stout petiole 2-4 mm long, glabrescent;

Flowers male catkins 5-15 cm long, to 18cm (average length : 12 cm)
Fruits acorn ovoid or globose, 1.5 cm maximum in diameter, in raised spikes on a 5-16 infrutescence, bearing to 20 fruits; cup with short, hairy at margin, lanceolate, to 4 mm long scales; wall cup 1 mm thick; acorn enclosed variably in the cup; maturation biannual;

Bark, twigs and
buds

bark grey-brown, strongly fissured; young twigs at first covered with pale brown hairs, then glabrous.
Hardiness zone, habitat hardy zone 7;
Miscellaneous

-- Sub-genus Cerris, section Ilex;
-- A.Camus : tome 1, p. 398, n°94;
-- For some Authors it is a synonym of Q. semecarpifolia...
-- See the Key for Asian simalar Quercus;

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