Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Castanopsis
52. Castanopsis fabri Hance; J. Bot. 22: 230. 1884.
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Castanopsis brevispina Hayata; C. brevistella Hayata & Kanehira ex A. Camus; C. ceratacantha Rehder & E. H. Wilson var. semiserrata (Hickel & A. Camus) A. Camus; C. hickelii A. Camus; C. kusanoi Hayata; C. matsudai Hayata ex A. Camus; C. ninbienensis Hickel & A. Camus; C. quangtriensis Hickel & A. Camus; C. semiserrata Hickel & A. Camus; C. sinsuiensis Kanehira; C. stellatospina Hayata; C. tenuispinula Hickel & A. Camus; C. traninhensis Hickel & A. Camus.
Trees 8-20 m tall. Young shoots sparsely pubescent. Petiole rarely to 1.5 cm; leaf blade ovate; narrowly oblong; or lanceolate; 8-18 x 2.5-5 cm; leathery; base oblique and rounded to rarely cuneate; margin serrate or rarely entire; apex acuminate and rarely mucronate; midvein adaxially conspicuously impressed; secondary vein 9-15 on each side of midvein. Rachis of male catkins sparsely pubescent. Female flowers 2 or 3 per cupule. Infructescences 8-17 cm. Cupule globose; broadly ellipsoid; or ovoid; 2-4 cm in diam.; splitting irregularly; wall ca. 1 mm thick; bracts spinelike; 5-10 mm; brown to yellowish brown when dry; sparsely pubescent to glabrescent; base connate into bundles; apex branched. Nut (1 or)2(or 3) per cupule; conical; 1-1.4 x 1-1.2 cm; glabrous; scar basal; 8-10 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Sep-Nov of following year.
Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 100-2000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hunan; Jiangxi; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Laos; Vietnam]
Vasilis Teodoridis:
2. Carex truncatigluma C. B. Clarke; J. Linn. Soc.; Bot. 36: 315. 1940.
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Rhizome obliquely ascending; covered with dark brown fibrous remains of old leaf-sheath. Flowering culms arising from the axils of leaves; 10?30 cm tall; trigonous; slender; slightly scabrid. Leaves longer than the culm; blade 2?10 mm wide; flat; scabrid on both surfaces; herbaceous. Bracts short-bladed; sheathed; sheath 6?9 mm. Spikes 4?6; the terminal one staminate; narrowly cylindrical; 1?1.5 cm; ca. 1 mm thick; sessile or with peduncle 0.5?2 cm; the lateral ones pistillate; cylindrical; 20?50 ? 2.5?3 mm; loosely flowered; the uppermost pistillate spike surpassing the staminate spike; with peduncle enclosed in the bract sheath; the lower pistillate spikes spaced; with exerted peduncles; the lowest peduncle 2?4(6) cm. Pistillate glumes broadly obovate; the apex truncate to round; emarginated; or mucronate; dark yellow; broadly hyaline on margins; the costa green. Utricles longer than the glume; fusiform; obscurely trigonous; 4?6 mm; brown-green; membranous; minutely pubescent; many-nerved; cuneate at base; stipitate; attenuate above to a beak; minutely 2-toothed at orifice. Achene tightly enveloped; fusiform; trigonous; 2.5?3.5 mm; pale-brown; with a distinct; stout; cylindrical neck; neck 0.5?1.5 mm; truncate or shallowly concave at apex; with the faces excavated both at upper and lower part; stipitate at base; stipe 0.5?0.7 mm; style base slightly thickened; persistent; stigmas 3. Fl?fr. Mar?May.
Forest undergrowth; grasslands on mountain slopes; streamsides; 500?1200 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hunan; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Malaysia; Philippines; Vietnam].