''Quercus delicatula'' is an Asian species of trees in the

beech family The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species occur as evergr ...

. It has been found only in southern China, in the Provinces of

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

, Guangxi, and

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...

.Flora of China, ''Cyclobalanopsis delicatula'' (Chun & Tsiang) Y. C. Hsu & H. W. Jen, 1979. 上思青冈 shang si qing gang
/ref> It is placed in subgenus ''Cerris'', section ''Cyclobalanopsis''. ''Quercus delicatula'' is a tree up to 20 meters tall with reddish-brown hairs covering the twigs and the undersides of the leaves, the leaves as much as 12 cm long.

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line drawing, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 4, figure 377, drawings 1 + 2 at lower left
delicatula Flora of China Plants described in 1947 {{Quercus-stub