Quercus setulosa Hickel & A.Camus

China (Guangdong, Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan), Laos, Thailand, Vietnam; 100 - 1300 m;

usually a shrub, but may reach 20 m tall;

7-9 x 1.5-2.5 cm; evergreen; leathery; oblong, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate; apex sub-acute to acuminate; base rounded or broadly cuneate; margin irregularly toothed in apical half; shiny green, glabrous above; greenish and glabrous beneath except brown stellate hairs on midvein and at veins axils; 8-10 vein pairs inconspicuous above; petiole puberulent 1-2 cm long;

April-May; female flowers 2 together with 3 short styles;

acorn 1.5-2 cm long, 1 cm in diameter; narrowly ellipsoid; mucronate; brown; slightly pubescent at apex; paired on a short peduncle; cup flat, scaly, 1 cm wide, covering 1/4 of nut; basal scar prominent, 3 mm wide; maturing in 1 year;

not hardy; inhabits mixed forests;

– A. Camus : tome 2, p. 11n° 130; – Sub-genus Cerris, Section Ilex;