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Quercus pannosa | |
Author | Hand.-Mazz. 1929 Symb. Sin. 7: 35 |
Synonyms |
ilex var. rufescens Franchet 1899 p.p. |
Local names | |
Range | China (Sichuan, Yunnan), to 4000 m. |
Growth habit | may reach 15 m, but often shrubby; |
Leaves | 3.5-5.5 x 2-3 cm; evergreen; stiff, leathery; elliptic to oblong, sometimes slightly obovate; base round; apex rounded, sometimes with a blunt mucro; margin entire or with spiny teeth, less revolute than in Q. semecarpifolia; adaxially glabrescent; abaxially with golden-yellow trichomes covering densely the lateral veins; 6-9 pairs of secondary veins impressed above; petiole 5-8 mm long, hairless. |
Flowers | |
Fruits | acorn ovoid 1.5 cm long, singly or paired on a 4-5 cm long peduncle, shorter than in Q. semecarpifolia; cupule halfround with appressed scales, adhering totally to the acorn which is half enclosed by cup; maturation in 2 years/ |
Bark, twigs and |
bark grey-brown, fissures into rectangular plates; young twigs becoming hairless; |
Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy zone 7; all kinds of soils; |
Miscellaneous |
-- A.Camus : tome1, p. 385, n°90; |
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