Castanopsis longispina (king ex Hook.f.) C.c.huang & Y.T.Zhang

Species

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Characteristics

Trees. Young shoots purple-brown, slightly angulate, tufted puberulent, glabrescent. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade oblong to obovate-oblong, 14-24 × 5-8 cm, 1st-year leaf blades papery and abaxially covered with very small stellate cespitose hairs along midvein, base acute to rounded, margin entire, apex shortly acuminate; secondary veins 12-16 on each side of midvein, adaxially ± impressed. Infructescence rachis 4-5 mm thick. Cupule wall ca. 1 mm thick; bracts spinelike, congested, almost completely covering cupule, 1.3-1.5 cm, stiff, free or a few in bundles, puberulent. Nut ellipsoid, 2-3 × ca. 1 cm, glabrescent; scar ca. 8 mm in diam.
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A tree. It keeps its leaves throughout the year. The leaves are broadly oval and 14-24 cm long by 5-8 cm wide. The base is rounded and it tapers to the tip. The seeds are oval and 10 mm long. They are in a capsule.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
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A subtropical plant. It grows at about 1,200 m above sea level.
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Edible nuts
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Distribution

Castanopsis longispina world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:963733-1
WFO ID wfo-0000814369
COL ID RP2N
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Synonyms

Castanopsis longispina Castanopsis ferox var. longispina Castanopsis tribuloides var. longispina