| Quercus monimotricha | |
| Author | Hand.-Mazz. 1929 Symb. Sin. 7: 41 |
| Synonyms | spinosa David ex Franch. var. monimotricha
Hand.-Mazz. 1925 semecarpifolia Smith var. rufescens (Franch.) Schottky 1912 semecarpifolia Konitz, not Smith |
| Local names | ai gao shan li ; |
| Range | SO China (Sichuan, Yunnan); Myanmar; 2000-4400 m; |
| Growth habit | 0.2-0.6 m (may reach 2 m tall); |
| Leaves | 1.2-3.5 x 1.2-3 cm ; evergreen; leathery; oblong-elliptic to suborbicular-ovate; apex obtuse to mucronate; base rounded or subcordate; margin sinuate, revolute, sometimes entire, but more often toothed; densely hairy at first; adaxially with fascicled and multiradiate hairs, becoming glabrescent; with solitary, fascicled and glandular simple hairs below; 4-7 vein pairs, impressed above, at an angle of 50-60° with midrib; petiole hairy, 3 mm long; |
| Flowers | June-July; flowers as soon as 2 or 3 year-old; male catkin 1-4 cm long, tomentose; female catkin very short, with 1 or 2 flowers; |
| Fruits | acorn 1 cm long, 0.8 cm in diameter; ovoid; singly or paired; cup sessile or short-stalked, flat, shallow, enclosing only the base of acorn, with lanceolate, grey brown tomentose, 1 mm long scales; maturing first year; |
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Bark, twigs and |
twigs twisted, brown pubescent, whorled; lenticels rounded, pale; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy; slow growing; |
| Miscellaneous | -- A.Camus : tome 1, p. 388,
n° 91; -- Sub-genus Cerris, Section Ilex; -- Related to Q.spinosa ; -- See the Key for Asian similar Quercus; |
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