Quercus serrata Murray

China, Japan, Korea ; 100 to 3000 m

reaches 15-20 m tall; elegant habit;

5-15 x 2.5-4cm; deciduous; oboval or narrowly oval; leathery; apex pointed; base cuneate or slightly rounded; margin with 6-12 pairs of incurved teeth, glandular-tipped; densely hairy when young, becoming glabrescent, mainly beneath; 7-14 vein pairs; subsessile or with a short, glabrous petiole (to 3 cm);

March-April; pistillate inflorescences 1.5-3 cm long;

acorn 1.7-2 cm long; ovoid or subglobose; solitary or several together on a short stalk; enclosed 1/4 to 1/3 by cup; cup shallow, with appressed, hairy, triangular scales; maturing in 1 year;

hardy; inhabits broad-leaved deciduous forests;

– A.Camus : n° 142; – Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Series Roburoid; – Q.serrata and Q.glandulifera should be distinct, according to Sargent ; – Hybrids with Q. yunnanensis