''Quercus schottkyana'' is an Asian species of tree in 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 been found in southwestern China (
Guizhou
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,
Sichuan
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,
Yunnan
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).
[Flora of China, ''Cyclobalanopsis glaucoides'' Schottky, 1912. 滇青冈 dian qing gang ]
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''Quercus schottkyana'' is a tree up to 20 meters tall. Twigs are grayish-green. Leaves can be as much as 12 cm long, thick and leathery.[Schottky, Ernst Max 1912. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 47(5): 657-658]
description in Latin in footnote, discussion in German in text, as ''Cyclobalanopsis glaucoides'' A SW Chinese endemic evergreen oak, related to ''Q. glauca'', but with the new foliage densely white hairy and pinky-red, turning green above and glaucous beneath, serrated and with a drawn out tip. A handsome ''Cyclobalanopsis'' oak, rare in cultivation
References
External links
line drawing, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 4, fig. 378, drawing 2 at upper right
as ''Cyclobalanopsis glaucoides''
photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Yunnan
* http://www.panglobalplants.com/plants-for-sale/ in UK
schottkyana
Flora of China
Plants described in 1912
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