木姜叶青冈 mu jiang ye qing gang

Quercus litseoides Dunn, J. Bot. 47: 377. 1909.

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.

* Sparse forests in mountains; 700-1000 m. SE Guangdong, SW Guangxi