Vasilis Teodoridis:
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:
Fagaceae | Castanopsis
38. Castanopsis jucunda Hance; J. Bot. 22: 230. 1884.
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Castanopsis formosana (Skan) Hayata; C. tribuloides (Smith) A. de Candolle var. formosana Skan.
Trees 10-26 m tall; 1st-year branchlets and leaf blades adaxially brownish black when dry; bud scales; branchlets; petiole of young leaf; mature leaf blades abaxially; and rachis of inflorescences sparsely covered with glabrescent; reddish brown; waxy scalelike trichomes. Petiole 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade ovate; ovate-elliptic; or oblong; sometimes obovate to obovate-elliptic; (4-)10-18 x (2-)4-8 cm; base rounded to broadly cuneate and inaequilateral or symmetric; margin at least from middle to apex serrate or rarely undulate; apex acute to acuminate; midvein adaxially impressed; secondary veins (5-)8-11 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescences axillary; solitary. Infructescences 10-15 cm. Cupule subglobose; 2.5-3.5 cm in diam.; splitting into 3-5 segments; outside and bracts pubescent and with grayish brown; lamellate; waxy scalelike trichomes especially when young; wall 0.5-1(-1.5) mm thick; bracts spinelike; 6-10 mm; free but a few in bundles; sometimes transversely united to discontinuous rings. Nut broadly conical to ovoid; 1-2 x 1-1.5 cm; glabrous or glabrescent; scar basal; 1-1.2(-1.5) cm in diam. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Aug-Oct of following year.
Broad-leaved evergreen forests; below 1500 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; E to SC Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Vietnam]
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]