| Quercus championii | |
| Author | Benth. 1854 Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 6: 113 1854. |
| Synonyms | Cyclobalanopsis championii (Benth.) Oerst. 1867 |
| Local names | ling
nan qing gang |
| Range | Taiwan ; China
(Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan ) ; 100 - 1700 m ; |
| Growth habit | reaches 20 m, trunk to 1.2 m in diameter; only to 8 m in cultivation; |
| Leaves | 3.5-12 x 2-4.5
cm; crowded towards branchlet apex; oboval to oblong-elliptic; apex rounded
with a short point, base cuneate; leathery, stiff; brightly green, glabrous
above; pale brown tomentose beneath with stellate hairs; margin entire,
révolute, sometimes ondulate near apex; 6-10 vein pairs impressed
adaxially and prominent beneath, such as the midvein; petiole 0.8-1.5
cm, densely pale orangish brown tomentose; |
| Flowers | from December
to March; female inflorescences to 4 cm ; 3 short styles; |
| Fruits | acorn globose,
flattened, 1.5-2 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter; glabrescent; basal scar
4-5 mm wide, flat; enclosed 1/2 or 1/3 in cup; cup 0.9 cm long, 1.5 cm
in diameter, tomentose, with scales in 4-7 concentric rings, margins remotely
denticulate; maturing the first year; |
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Bark, twigs and |
bark dark grey, fissured into thin plates; branchlet sulcate, densely grey brown stellate tomentose; |
| Hardiness zone, habitat | not
hardy (zone 8-9); broad-leaved evergreen forests in mountains; |
| Miscellaneous |
-- A. Camus : n° 30;
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