Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Castanopsis
6. Castanopsis sclerophylla (Lindley & Paxton) Schottky; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 47: 638. 1912.
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Quercus sclerophylla Lindley & Paxton; Paxt. Fl. Gard. 1: 59. 1850; Lithocarpus chinensis (Abel) A. Camus; Q. chinensis Abel (1818); not Castanopsis chinensis Hance (1868); Q. cuspidata Thunberg var. sinensis A. de Candolle; Synaedrys sclerophylla (Lindley & Paxton) Koidzumi.
Trees; branches and leaf blades glabrous. Young shoots reddish brown; slightly angulate. Petiole 1.5-2.5 cm; leaf blade oblong; ovate-elliptic; or obovate-elliptic; 7-15 cm; leathery; adaxially silver-gray with age; base rounded to broadly cuneate and usually inaequilateral; margin from middle to apex serrulate or rarely entire; apex acuminate; cuspidate; or shortly caudate; midvein slightly impressed from base to middle and slightly raised from middle to apex; secondary veins 10-15 on each side of midvein; prominent to very slender; evident. Rachis of inflorescences glabrous. Female inflorescence ca. 15 cm. Infructescences 8-15 cm. Cupule globose to subglobose; 1.2-1.5 cm in diam.; completely or almost completely enclosing nut; irregularly valved; outside yellowish brown puberulent; wall to 1 mm thick; bracts scalelike; 3- or 4-angled; sometimes only base connate; in annular umbones. Nut 1(-3) per cupule; subglobose; 1-1.4 cm in diam.; tomentulose; apex mucronulate; scar basal; 7-9 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Oct-Nov.
* Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 200-1000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangxi; NE Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; E Sichuan; Zhejiang
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Castanopsis
6. Castanopsis sclerophylla (Lindley & Paxton) Schottky; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 47: 638. 1912.
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Quercus sclerophylla Lindley & Paxton; Paxt. Fl. Gard. 1: 59. 1850; Lithocarpus chinensis (Abel) A. Camus; Q. chinensis Abel (1818); not Castanopsis chinensis Hance (1868); Q. cuspidata Thunberg var. sinensis A. de Candolle; Synaedrys sclerophylla (Lindley & Paxton) Koidzumi.
Trees; branches and leaf blades glabrous. Young shoots reddish brown; slightly angulate. Petiole 1.5-2.5 cm; leaf blade oblong; ovate-elliptic; or obovate-elliptic; 7-15 cm; leathery; adaxially silver-gray with age; base rounded to broadly cuneate and usually inaequilateral; margin from middle to apex serrulate or rarely entire; apex acuminate; cuspidate; or shortly caudate; midvein slightly impressed from base to middle and slightly raised from middle to apex; secondary veins 10-15 on each side of midvein; prominent to very slender; evident. Rachis of inflorescences glabrous. Female inflorescence ca. 15 cm. Infructescences 8-15 cm. Cupule globose to subglobose; 1.2-1.5 cm in diam.; completely or almost completely enclosing nut; irregularly valved; outside yellowish brown puberulent; wall to 1 mm thick; bracts scalelike; 3- or 4-angled; sometimes only base connate; in annular umbones. Nut 1(-3) per cupule; subglobose; 1-1.4 cm in diam.; tomentulose; apex mucronulate; scar basal; 7-9 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Oct-Nov.
* Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 200-1000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangxi; NE Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; E Sichuan; Zhejiang