Comments
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The two varieties intergrade considerably where they are in contact.
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Description
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Trees or erect shrubs , to 45 m. Bark thick, rough. Twigs densely covered with tight, yellowish, peltate trichomes. Leaves: petiole 5-8 mm. Leaf blade flat or folded upward along midvein, margins entire, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces abaxially usually golden or brownish with dense glandular trichomes. Fruits: cupule yellowish, 20-60 mm thick, densely spiny, surface obscured; nut light brown, (6-)8-12(-15) mm, glabrous, completely enclosed by cupule until maturity.
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Synonym
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Castanea chrysophylla Douglas ex Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 159. 1838; Castanopsis chrysophylla (Douglas ex Hooker) A. de Candolle
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