''Quercus longinux'' is an uncommon 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 only been found in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
.
[Flora of China, ''Cyclobalanopsis longinux'' (Hayata) Schottky, 1912. 长果青冈 chang guo qing gang ]
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''Quercus longinux'' is a tree. Leaves can be as much as 8 cm long. Acorn is up to 12 mm long, narrower than those of most other species in the subgenus.[Hayata Bunzô 1911. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 30(1): 292–293]
description in Latin, commentary in English
References
External links
line drawing, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 4, fig. 390, drawing 3 at upper right
longinux
Plants described in 1911
Endemic flora of Taiwan
Trees of Taiwan
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