Quercus aliena

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderFagales
5. FamilyFagaceae

Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Laos, Manchuria, Myanmar, Primorye, Taiwan, Thailand

Observations recorded9,028

Trees to 30 m tall, deciduous. Branchlets grayish brown, glabrescent, lenticellate; lenticels brownish, rounded. Petiole 1-1.3 cm, glabrous; leaf blade narrowly elliptic-obovate to obovate, (5-)10-20(-30) × 5-14(-16) cm, base cuneate to rounded, apex slightly obtuse to shortly acuminate; secondary veins 10-15 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescences axillary on young shoots; cupules solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3. Cupule cupular, 1-1.5 × 1.2-2 cm, enclosing ca. 1/2 of nut; bracts ovate-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, crowded, grayish pubescent. Nut ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.7-2.5 × 1.3-1.8 cm; scar slightly raised; stylopodium ca. 1 mm in diam. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Sep-Nov.

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