''Quercus disciformis'' is a species of tree 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 evergre ...

. 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,

Guizhou Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slight ...

, 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 disciformis'' (Chun & Tsiang) Y. C. Hsu & H. W. Jen, 1979. 碟斗青冈 die dou qing gang
/ref> ''Quercus disciformis'' is a tree up to 14 meters tall with leaves as much as 14 cm long.Chun Woon Young & Tsiang Ying 1947. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 28(3): 324–325
description in Latin, commentary in English

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line drawing, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 4, figure 392, drawings 5-9 at bottom
disciformis Flora of China Plants described in 1947 {{Quercus-stub