Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Castanopsis
36. Castanopsis fargesii Franchet; J. Bot. (Morot). 13: 195. 1899.
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Castanopsis argyracantha A. Camus; C. cryptoneuron (H. Léveillé) A. Camus ex Rehder; C. taiwaniana Hayata; Pasania ischnostachya Hu; Quercus cryptoneuron H. Léveillé; Q. pinfaensis H. Léveillé & Vaniot.
Trees 10-30 m tall; bud scales; young branchlets from middle to apex; petiole of young leaf blades; and leaf blades abaxially covered with glabrescent; rust-colored; small; lamellate; waxy scalelike trichomes. Branches glabrous. Petiole 1-2 cm; leaf blade oblong; lanceolate; or rarely ovate; 7-15 x 2-5 cm; abaxially covered with a thick and mealy layer of scalelike trichomes; reddish brown to yellowish brown when young; but tawny with age; base rounded to broadly cuneate and sometimes inaequilateral; margin entire or sometimes with few shallow teeth from middle to apex; apex acute to acuminate; midvein at least from middle to apex adaxially impressed; secondary veins 11-15 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescences solitary; glabrous; to 30 cm; cupules scattered on rachis. Infructescence rachis 1.5-3 mm thick. Cupule globose to broadly ovoid; 2.5-3 cm in diam.; splitting irregularly; outside and bracts whitish gray to brownish puberulent or with reddish brown waxy scalelike trichomes and sparse pubescence; wall ca. 1 mm thick; bracts spinelike; 8-10 mm; connate and in bundles basally or rarely from base to middle. Nut 1 per cupule; conical and 1-1.5 x 0.8-1.2 cm to subglobose and 0.8-1.4 cm in diam.; glabrous; scar basal; 8-10 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-Jun and Aug-Oct; fr. Apr-Oct of following year.
* Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 200-2100 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Castanopsis
36. Castanopsis fargesii Franchet; J. Bot. (Morot). 13: 195. 1899.
??? kao
Castanopsis argyracantha A. Camus; C. cryptoneuron (H. Léveillé) A. Camus ex Rehder; C. taiwaniana Hayata; Pasania ischnostachya Hu; Quercus cryptoneuron H. Léveillé; Q. pinfaensis H. Léveillé & Vaniot.
Trees 10-30 m tall; bud scales; young branchlets from middle to apex; petiole of young leaf blades; and leaf blades abaxially covered with glabrescent; rust-colored; small; lamellate; waxy scalelike trichomes. Branches glabrous. Petiole 1-2 cm; leaf blade oblong; lanceolate; or rarely ovate; 7-15 x 2-5 cm; abaxially covered with a thick and mealy layer of scalelike trichomes; reddish brown to yellowish brown when young; but tawny with age; base rounded to broadly cuneate and sometimes inaequilateral; margin entire or sometimes with few shallow teeth from middle to apex; apex acute to acuminate; midvein at least from middle to apex adaxially impressed; secondary veins 11-15 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescences solitary; glabrous; to 30 cm; cupules scattered on rachis. Infructescence rachis 1.5-3 mm thick. Cupule globose to broadly ovoid; 2.5-3 cm in diam.; splitting irregularly; outside and bracts whitish gray to brownish puberulent or with reddish brown waxy scalelike trichomes and sparse pubescence; wall ca. 1 mm thick; bracts spinelike; 8-10 mm; connate and in bundles basally or rarely from base to middle. Nut 1 per cupule; conical and 1-1.5 x 0.8-1.2 cm to subglobose and 0.8-1.4 cm in diam.; glabrous; scar basal; 8-10 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-Jun and Aug-Oct; fr. Apr-Oct of following year.
* Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 200-2100 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang