| 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 often 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 | very late (June, July) ; male catkins to 18cm (average length : 12 cm), and remarkable pistillate inflorescence 5-16 cm long (hence the species name); |
| Fruits | acorn ovoid or globose, 1.5 cm maximum in diameter, to 20 together on an erect infrutescence to 16 cm long; cup with short, hairy at margin, lanceolate scales; wall cup 1 mm thick; acorn enclosed variably in the cup; maturation biannual; |
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Bark, twigs and |
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; |
| Subspecies and varieties |
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| Pictures |
Pictures of the infrutescences HERE
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