''Quercus hypargyrea'' is an Asian species of tree in the beech family
Fagaceae
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. It is native to south-central and southeast China,
[ in particular the provinces of ]Anhui
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, Fujian
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, Guangxi
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, Hubei
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, Hunan
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, Jiangxi
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, Shaanxi
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, and Sichuan
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.[Flora of China, ''Cyclobalanopsis multinervis'' W. C. Cheng & T. Hong 1963. 多脉青冈 duo mai qing gang]
/ref> It has incorrectly been known as ''Quercus multinervis'', which is properly the name of a fossil species.[ It is placed in subgenus ''Cerris'', section ''Cyclobalanopsis''.
''Quercus hypargyrea'' is a tree up to 12 m tall. Leaves can be as much as 15.5 cm long.][
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Taxonomy
''Quercus hypargyrea'' was first described as ''Quercus glauca'' var. ''hypargyrea'' in 1900 by Ludwig Diels
Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (24 September 1874 – 30 November 1945) was a German botanist.
Diels was born in Hamburg, the son of the classical scholar Hermann Alexander Diels. From 1900 to 1902 he traveled together with Ernst Georg Pritzel thro ...
, who attributed the name to Karl Otto von Seemen Karl Otto von Seemen (24 March 1838 - 20 September 1910) was a German botanist and horticulturalist. He is noted for his studies of plants in the south of Africa.
Plants studied
According to the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) some 109 plan ...
. It was raised to a full species in 1992.illegitimate
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It is placed in subgenus ''Cerris'', section ''Cyclobalanopsis''.]
References
External links
photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in China
hypargyrea
Flora of South-Central China
Flora of Southeast China
Plants described in 1900
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