''Quercus myrsinifolia'' is an Asian species of tree in the ring-cupped oaks subgenus of the family

Fagaceae 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 eve ...

. It has several common names, including bamboo-leaf oak, Chinese evergreen oak, and Chinese ring-cupped oak. Its Chinese name is ;

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: , which means little leaf ring-cupped oak (literally translated as little leaf green ridge tree), in Japan it is called and in Korea it is known as (). It is native to east central and southeast China, Japan,

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, Laos, northern

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, and

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Description

''Quercus myrsinifolia'' is an evergreen oak tree that grows up to tall. Leaves are 60–110 × 18–40 mm with serrulate margins; the petiole is 10–25 mm long. The

acorn The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera '' Quercus'' and ''Lithocarpus'', in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains one seed (occasionally two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and bo ...

s are ovoid to ellipsoid, 14–25 × 10–15 mm, and glabrous with a rounded apex; the flat scar is approx. 6 mm in diameter. Cupules are 5–8 × 10–18 mm, enclosing 1/3–1/2 of acorn, bracts are not connate at the apex.

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q1075985 myrsinifolia Trees of China Trees of Japan Trees of Korea Trees of Taiwan Flora of Indo-China Plants described in 1850