Family: Fagaceae | Genus: Quercus | Species: Quercus serrata Murray. |
Habit |
Leaf |
Flower |
Fruit |
Bark |
Synonym | Quercus glandulifera var. stellatopilosa W.H.Zhang |
Flower Color | Greenish |
Common Name | Bao li, Oak | Flower Type | Panicle |
English / Trade Name | Red Oak | Flowering Period | April-June |
Vernacular /Local Name | Uyung | Fruiting Period | Oct-Dec |
Altitude | 610-1950 m | Fruit Type | Acorn |
Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | 1.7-2 cm long, ovoid or subglobose, enclosed 1/4 to 1/3 by cup with appressed, hairy, triangular scales; maturing in 1 year |
Habitat | Saline mud flats mostly Cultivated | Bark Type | Rugged |
Distribution | Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats and South-east Asia. | Bark Details | Bark grayish-brown and lenticellate |
Distribution in manipur | Origin | Native | |
Leaf Type | Compound | ||
Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
Leaf Shape | Elliptic | ||
Description of Species | Trees to 25 m tall, deciduous. Leaves subsessile to petiolate; petiole to 3 cm, glabrous or glabrescent; leaf blade narrowly elliptic-ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or obovate, (5-)7-17 × (1.5-)3-9 cm, thinly leathery, with adherent single hairs when young, abaxially glabrous or occasionally stellate tomentose, base cuneate to nearly rounded, margin glandular serrate, apex acuminate to acute; secondary veins 7-12 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescences 1.5-3 cm. Cupule cupular, 5-8 mm × 1-1.2 cm, enclosing 1/4-1/3 of nut; bracts triangular, adherent, margin pilose. Nut ovoid to ovoid-globose, 1.7-2 × 0.8-1.2 cm; scar 5-6 mm in diam., flat; stylopodium ca. 1 mm in diam | Leaf Details | 7-17 x 3-9 cm, deciduous, narrowly oval elliptic, leathery, apex pointed, base cuneate or slightly rounded, margin denticulate, glandular, densely hairy when young, becoming glabrous, 7-12 vein pairs, subsessile or with a short petiole (to 3 cm) |
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