Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Cyclobalanopsis
39. Cyclobalanopsis kouangsiensis (A. Camus) Y. C. Hsu & H. W. Jen; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 14(2): 78. 1976.
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Quercus kouangsiensis A. Camus; Bull. Soc. Bot. France 84: 176. 1937; Q. nemoralis Chun.
Trees to 15 m tall. Branchlets sulcate; densely tawny velutinous. Petiole 1.5-3 cm; densely light brown tomentose; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to lanceolate; 12-20 x 3.5-5.5 cm; leathery; abaxially densely pale grayish brown stellate tomentose; base cuneate and usually oblique; margin apically serrate; apex acuminate; midvein and secondary veins abaxially prominent but adaxially flat; secondary veins 10-14 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially slender; conspicuous. Female inflorescence ca. 1.5 cm; rachis brown tomentose. Cupule campanulate; ca. 2.5 x 2.5-3.4 cm; enclosing more than 1/2 of nut; outside orangish brown tomentose; inside feltlike orangish tomentose; wall ca. 1.5 mm thick; bracts in 8 or 9 rings; margin dentate. Nut cylindric-ellipsoid; ca. 5 x 2.5 cm; tomentose; scar ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; slightly convex; stylopodium umbonate; ca. 3 mm. Fr. Oct.
* Wet; broad-leaved evergreen forests in mountains; 200-2000 m. Guangdong; Guangxi; Hunan; Yunnan