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  Quercus salicina
Author Blume 1851 Mus. Bot. 1: 305
Synonyms angustissima Makino 1913
Cyclobalanopsis salicina (Bl.) Oerst. 1866
glauca var. stenophylla Bl. 1851
glauca var. salicina (Bl.) Menitsky 1976
stenophylla (Bl.) Makino 1910 (A. Camus : n° 41)
stenophylla var. salicina (Bl.) Makino 1910
salicina var. stenophylla (Bl.)
Hatus. 1951
stenophylla var. latifolia Nakai 1926
Cyclobalanopsis stenophylla (Bl.) Liao
stenophylloides Auct., not Hayata
Local names urazirogashi ;
Range Japan; Korea; Taiwan;
Growth habit tree to 30 m tall, with straight trunk to 1 m in diameter; often shrubby in cultivation, introduced in G.B. in 1895;
Leaves 4-12 x 1-3 cm; evergreen; leathery; narrowly oblong-lanceolate to almost linear; apex acuminate pointed; base rounded or attenuate; margin entire, or few-toothed towards apex; green, hairless above; glaucous or white, waxy beneath, with stellate, appressed hairs; 11-13 vein pairs weakly prominent beneath; short petiole, 0.5-2 cm long, grooved above, slightly pubescent;
Flowers July-August; male catkins 6-9 cm long, yellow flowers with 3-4 lobed perianth and 4-6 stamens; pistillate spikes short, 2-3 flowered with recurved stigmas;
Fruits acorn 1.5-2 cm long, 1-1.2 cm diameter; stalk 0.5-1 cm; enclosed 1/2 to 2/3 by cup; cup silky, 1.2 cm in diameter, with 6-8 rings of scales ; matures in 1 year;

Bark, twigs and
buds

bark smooth, dark grey; twigs pale brown tomentose, becoming glabrous; buds elongate, 0.3-0.8 cm long, with yellow green scales; stipules persistent nearly one year;
Hardiness zone, habitat hardiness zone : 7-8; in warm temperate forests;
Miscellaneous -- A. Camus : n° 39;
-- Sub-genus Cerris, Section Cyclobalanopsis;
-- Section Glauca, sub-section Glaucae (Menitsky);
-- Differs from
Q.bambusaefolia in having pointed apex leaves;

Subspecies and
varieties
--- var. orgyalis (Hand.-Mazz.) 1929

--- var. stenophylloides (Hayata) S.S. Ying 1988 : see
Q.stenophylloides ;

--- f. angusta (Nakai) H.Ohba 1989 J. Jap. Bot. 64: 11, 323
=
stenophylla var. angusta Nakai 1926

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