Description
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Trees to 10 m tall. Branchlets sparsely tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves sessile; leaf blade obovate-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2.5-7 × 0.8-3 cm, glabrous, abaxially grayish green, adaxially dark green, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse; secondary veins 6-9 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescences ca. 1 cm; cupules 2, apical. Cupule bowl-shaped, 5-6 × ca. 10 mm, enclosing ca. 1/3 of nut, outside, remotely grayish brown tomentose; bracts in 5-7 rings, margin entire or denticulate. Nut ellipsoid, 1.5-1.8 × ca. 1 cm, apex pubescent; scar flat; stylopodium persistent, evident.
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Habitat
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* Sparse forests in mountains; 700-1000 m.
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Synonym
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Quercus litseoides Dunn, J. Bot. 47: 377. 1909.
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