Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Castanopsis
8. Castanopsis hystrix J. D. Hooker & Thomson ex A. de Candolle; J. Bot. 182. 1863.
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Castanea bodinieri H. Léveillé & Vaniot; Castanopsis bodinieri (H. Léveillé & Vaniot) Koidzumi; C. brunnea (H. Léveillé) A. Camus; C. lohfauensis Hu; C. tapuensis Hu; Quercus brunnea H. Léveillé.
Trees. Young shoots purple-brown; slender; sparsely to densely puberulent and with yellowish brown small lamellate waxy scalelike trichomes. Petiole ca. 1 cm or rarely longer; leaf blade lanceolate to obovate-elliptic; 4-9 x 1.5-4 cm or rarely smaller or larger; papery to thinly leathery; pubescent when young but early glabrescent; at least adaxially along midvein with very lax and thick or tight and thin; reddish brown to yellowish brown; small; lamellate; waxy scalelike trichomes; base sharply acute to rounded and inaequilateral; apex mucronate to caudate; midvein adaxially impressed; secondary veins 9-15 on each side of midvein; very slender; evident. Female inflorescence solitary in leaf axil. Infructescence ca. 15 cm. Cupule globose; 2.5-4 cm in diam.; splitting into 4 segments; wall ca. 2.5 mm thick; bracts spinelike; completely covering cupule; 6-10 mm; sparsely puberulent; base of some connate into bundles. Nut 1 per cupule; broadly conical; 1-1.5 x 0.8-1.3 cm; glabrous; scar basal. Fl. Apr-Jun; fr. Aug-Nov of following year.
Broad-leaved evergreen forests; near sea level to 1600 m. SE Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; SW Hunan; SE Xizang (M?dog Xian); S Yunnan [Bhutan; Cambodia; NE India; Laos; Myanmar; Nepal; Sikkim; Vietnam]