| Quercus acrodonta | |
| Author | Seemen 1897 Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 23(57): 48 |
| Synonyms | phillyreoides Franch. not A.Gray handeliana A.Camus 1933 Bull. Soc. Bot. France 80: 355 (A.Camus n° 101) ilex L. var. acrodonta (Seemen) Skan 1902 parvifolia Hand.-Mazz. 1925 , not Benth. 1889 nor Small 1895 |
| Local names | yan li ; |
| Range | China (Gansu, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), 300 m to 2300 m ; |
| Growth habit | small tree or shrub, but can reach 15 m tall; |
| Leaves |
2.5 to 4 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide; persistent 2 years; subrhomboidal or oblong; base rounded or weakly cordate; apex shortly acuminate; margin with scattered spiny teeth in the apical half; glabrous and lustrous grey-green above; densely pubescent and yellowish below with stipitate stellate hairs; 6-7 pairs of secondary veins, pubescent, slightly raised beneath (with midrib very prominent abaxially and slightly impressed above), hidden in the tomentum; petiole 3-5 mm long, tomentose; |
| Flowers | pistillate flowers in May, near top of the tree; inflorescence with tomentose rachis; male catkin 1,5-2 cm long; |
| Fruits | acorn 1.5-2 cm long, 1.3 cm in diameter; ovoid, with yellowish hairs at apex; singly or paired on a very short rachis; enclosed for 1/4 of length in cup; cup with greyish tomentose scales, somewhat reddish at top; maturing in 2 years, in September-October; |
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Bark, twigs and |
young twigs yellowish tomentose, soon hairless; bud short, subobtuse, with ciliate scales; stipules silky, deciduous; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy ; all types of soils, but prefers calcareous ones ; |
| Miscellaneous | -- A. Camus : tome 1, p. 412,
n° 99 ; -- Sub-genus Cerris, Section Ilex; -- Resembles Q.phillyreoides A.Gray, but differs from it in having dense pubescence under the leaves, and the midrib sunken above; -- For Govaerts & Frodin, following Camus and Menitsky, Q. handeliana (= Q. parvifolia Hand.-Mazz.) is a true species, in Yunnan ; for The Flora of China 2008, it is a synonym for Q.acrodonta. |
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