Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Cyclobalanopsis
57. Cyclobalanopsis patelliformis (Chun) Y. C. Hsu & H. W. Jen; J. Beijing Forest. Univ. 15(4): 45. 1993.
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Quercus patelliformis Chun; J. Arnold Arbor. 28: 241. 1947.
Trees to 15 m tall. Branchlets conspicuously angular when young; grayish brown; sparsely lenticellate by 2nd year; glabrous. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic; oblong-elliptic; or ovate-lanceolate; 5-12 x 2.5-6 cm; leathery; abaxially grayish green and with stellate hairs when young but glabrescent; adaxially dark green; base cuneate to rarely subrounded and sometimes oblique; margin shortly and sharply serrate with serration somewhat incurved; apex acuminate; midvein adaxially flat; secondary veins 9-11 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially very slender; inconspicuous to evident. Female inflorescence 2-3 cm; cupules 3-5. Fruit solitary. Cupule shallowly cupular; 6-8 mm or rarely shallower; 2-3 cm in diam.; enclosing ca. 1/3 of nut; outside pale grayish brown puberulent; inside pale orangish brown sericeous; wall ca. 3 mm thick; bracts in 8 or 9 rings; margin dentate but apical 2 or 3 entire. Nut oblate; 2-2.5 x 2.5-2.8 cm; grayish brown puberulent; scar 1.5-2 cm in diam.; impressed or flat; stylopodium persistent; ca. 4 cm in diam. Fl. May-Jun; fr. Oct-Nov of following year.
* Wet broad-leaved evergreen forests in mountains; 400-1000 m. Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan; S Jiangxi
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Cyclobalanopsis
57. Cyclobalanopsis patelliformis (Chun) Y. C. Hsu & H. W. Jen; J. Beijing Forest. Univ. 15(4): 45. 1993.
???? tuo pan qing gang
Quercus patelliformis Chun; J. Arnold Arbor. 28: 241. 1947.
Trees to 15 m tall. Branchlets conspicuously angular when young; grayish brown; sparsely lenticellate by 2nd year; glabrous. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic; oblong-elliptic; or ovate-lanceolate; 5-12 x 2.5-6 cm; leathery; abaxially grayish green and with stellate hairs when young but glabrescent; adaxially dark green; base cuneate to rarely subrounded and sometimes oblique; margin shortly and sharply serrate with serration somewhat incurved; apex acuminate; midvein adaxially flat; secondary veins 9-11 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially very slender; inconspicuous to evident. Female inflorescence 2-3 cm; cupules 3-5. Fruit solitary. Cupule shallowly cupular; 6-8 mm or rarely shallower; 2-3 cm in diam.; enclosing ca. 1/3 of nut; outside pale grayish brown puberulent; inside pale orangish brown sericeous; wall ca. 3 mm thick; bracts in 8 or 9 rings; margin dentate but apical 2 or 3 entire. Nut oblate; 2-2.5 x 2.5-2.8 cm; grayish brown puberulent; scar 1.5-2 cm in diam.; impressed or flat; stylopodium persistent; ca. 4 cm in diam. Fl. May-Jun; fr. Oct-Nov of following year.
* Wet broad-leaved evergreen forests in mountains; 400-1000 m. Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan; S Jiangxi