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Quercus baronii | |
Author | Skan 1899 J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 26: 507 1899. |
Synonyms | dielsiana Seemen ex Diels 1900 baronii f. capillata Kozlov 1933 baronii var. capillata (Kozlov) Liou 1936 baronii var. pendula S.Y.Wang & C.L.Chang 1980 kozloviana Liou 1936 pseudoserrata Liou 1936 |
Local names | jiang zi li |
Range | Western China (Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hunan, Gansu, Sichuan); 900 to 2200 m; introduced in Europe in 1914 by Meyer; |
Growth habit | 6-15 m; |
Leaves | 3-6 x 1-2.5 cm; persistent 1 year (in the North of its range, in colder places, leaves are sometimes deciduous in winter); leathery; ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate; apex acuminate; base rounded or weakly auricled; toothed except basally; shiny, glabrous except stellate hairs upper side; fascicled and fused-stellate pubescence below the first year, becoming glabrous except yellowish hairs along midrib; midrib slightly raised above, much more beneath; 5-7 pairs of lateral veins, straight, at an angle of 35° with midrib; petiole 3-9 mm, yellow tomentose, then glabrescent; |
Flowers | April; female inflorescences to 1-2 cm, bearing 1 to 3 flowers; |
Fruits | acorn ovoid
1.2-1.7 cm long and 0.7-1.2 cm in diameter; apex flat and silky; singly
or paired, on a 1 cm long peduncle; enclosed for 1/3 of length or more
in cup; cup 1.5-2 cm in diametre, 0.8-1 cm high, with greyish, reflexed
scales to 3-5 mm; ripe in 2 years; |
Bark, twigs and |
bark
gray brown marked with pale grey; branchlets stellate pubescent when young,
becoming glabrous; bud oblong, slightly reddish; |
Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy;
all types of soils; prefers alkaline soils; |
Miscellaneous | -- A.Camus : tome 1, p. 426,
n° 104; -- Sub-genus Cerris, Section Ilex; -- For Menitsky (1974), Q.pseudoserrata Liou 1936 is a synonym of Q.serrata Thunb. -- Discovered by the italian missionary Giraldi, in 1895, in Shanxi; |
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