Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Cyclobalanopsis
11. Cyclobalanopsis neglecta Schottky; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 47: 650. 1912.
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Cyclobalanopsis bambusifolia (Hance) Chun ex Y. C. Hsu & H. W. Jen; Quercus bambusifolia Hance (1875); not Fortune (1860) nor T. M. Masters (1874); Q. neglecta (Schottky) Koidzumi.
Trees to 20 m tall. Branchlets grayish brown sericeous; glabrescent. Leaves crowded toward branchlet apex; petiole 2-5 mm; glabrous; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate; 3-11 x 0.5-1.8 cm; subleathery; abaxially whitish and glabrous or basally villous; base cuneate; margin entire or indistinctly 1- or 2-crenate toward apex; apex rounded; midvein adaxially slightly raised or flat; secondary veins 7-14 on each side of midvein; inconspicuous; tertiary veins abaxially inconspicuous to obscure. Female inflorescences 5-10 mm; rachis grayish brown tomentose when young; cupules 2-many. Infructescences 5-10 mm; usually 1-fruited. Cupule saucer-shaped to cupular; 5-10 mm x 1.3-1.5(-1.8) cm; covering base of nut; outside grayish brown velutinous; inside brown tomentose; wall ca. 1 mm thick; bracts in 4-6 rings; margin entire or triangular denticulate. Nut obovoid to ellipsoid; 1.5-2.5 x 1-1.6 cm; puberulent; glabrescent; scar 5-7 mm in diam.; slightly convex; stylopodium persistent; evident. Fl. Feb-Mar; fr. Aug-Nov.
Dense forests in mountains; 500-2200 m. Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan [Vietnam]