Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Cyclobalanopsis
2. Cyclobalanopsis fleuryi (Hickel & A. Camus) Chun ex Q. F. Zheng; Fl. Fujian. 1: 404. 1982.
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Quercus fleuryi Hickel & A. Camus; Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 29: 600. 1923; Cyclobalanopsis austroyunnanensis Hu; C. nengpulaensis H. Li & Y. C. Hsu; Q. tsoi Chun ex Menitsky.
Trees to 25 m tall. Branchlets densely orangish brown tomentose; glabrescent and densely lenticellate. Petiole 2-6 cm; tawny tomentose when young; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to ovate-elliptic; 14-27 x 4-9 cm; leathery; densely orangish brown tomentose when young but glabrescent; abaxially whitish; base cuneate; margin entire or apically undulate and serrulate; apex acute to shortly acuminate; midvein adaxially slightly raised; secondary veins 10-12(-15) on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially conspicuous. Male inflorescences 10-15 cm; tawny tomentose. Female inflorescence solitary in leaf axils toward apex of branchlets; 2.5-3.5 cm; rachis thick and densely orangish brown tomentose; cupules 4 or 5. Infructescence rachis short; ca. 7 mm thick; thicker than branchlet. Cupule campanulate to cylindric; 3-4 x 2.5-4 cm; enclosing ca. 2/3 of nut; outside and inside with feltlike orangish brown indumentum; wall to 6 mm thick; bracts in 10-13 rings; margin subentire. Nut cylindric-ellipsoid; 3-4.5 x 2-3 cm; densely tawny tomentose; scar ca. 1.2 cm in diam.; convex; stylopodium persistent; 5-8 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr; fr. Oct-Dec.
Dense forests in mountains; 500-1500 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hunan; Jiangxi; Yunnan [Laos; Vietnam]