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  Quercus oxyodon
Author MiQ.1863 Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 1: 114
Synonyms Cyclobalanopsis oxyodon (MiQ.) Oersted 1867
Cyclobalanopsis breviradiata Cheng ex Hsu & Wei Jen
Cyclobalanopsis lineata var. oxyodon (MiQ.) Schottky 1912
Cyclobalanopsis fargesii (Franch.) W.H.Zhang2001.
fargesii Franchet 1899
glauca var. lineata Franch.1899
lineata Bl. var. grandifolia Skan 1899
lineata var. oxyodon (MiQ.) Wenzig 1886
lineata var. fargesii (Franch.) Skan 1899
oxyodon var. fargesii (Franch.) Rehd.
& Wils. 1916
salicina var. orgyalis Hand.-Mazz. 1929
songtavanensis A.Camus 1948
Local names man qing gang ;
Range Himalaya ( Nepal to Meghalaya ); Assam ; China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, SE Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang); Myanmar ; 1700-2800 m
Growth habit reaches 20 m tall; trunk short, crown spreading;
Leaves 8-20 x 3-8 cm; evergreen or semi-evergreen; leathery, hard; elliptic to oblong-lanceolate; apex pointed, base asymmetrically rounded or broadly cuneate; margin denticulate from tip to base, or nearly so; green, glabrous above; whitish beneath at first with simple and stellate hairs, then glabrous and glaucous; 12-20 vein pairs and midrib impressed above, raised beneath; petiole 2.5-4 mm long;
Flowers May-June; pistillate inflorescences 2-5 cm long; 3 styles; 
Fruits acorn 1.6-2 cm long, 1.3-1.7 cm in diameter, ovoid to subglobose; brown; glabrous; sessile; clustered on a spike 2-4 cm long; enclosed 1/2 by cup; cup 1.5-2 cm in diameter, tomentose outside, sericeous inside, very thin (less than 1 mm thick), with 6-8 dentate concentric rings; scar 8 mm in diameter, slightly convex; stylopodium thick, with 3-4 rings; maturing in 1 year;

Bark, twigs and
buds

young branchlets tomentose, soon becoming hairless; numerous lenticels;
Hardiness zone, habitat hardy (zone 8); valleys and slopes in mountains; all types of soils; cultivated in Great Britain;
Miscellaneous -- A. Camus : tome 1, p. 216, n° 17;
-- Sub-genus Cerris, Section Cyclobalanopsis;
-- Section Glauca, sub-section Oxyodontes (Menitsky);

Subspecies and
varieties
-- Q.fargesi Franch.1899
= Q.lineata var. fargesii (Franch.) Skan 1899
= Q.oxyodon var. fargesii (Franch.) Rehd. & Wils. 1916
= Cyclobalanopsis lineata var. fargesii (Franch.) Schottky 1912
actually it is the type; differs from Q. oxyodon only in having cupule with entire, yellowish pubescent rings;

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