Quercus lamellosa

Quercus lamellosa
1855 illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fagales
Family:	Fagaceae
Genus:	Quercus
Species:	Q. lamellosa
Binomial name
Quercus lamellosa Sm. 1819
Synonyms
List Cyclobalanopsis fengii Hu & W.C.Cheng Cyclobalanopsis lamellosa (Sm.) Oerst. Cyclobalanopsis paucilamellosa (A.DC.) Oerst. Dryopsila aprica Raf. Perytis lamellosa (Sm.) Raf. Quercus imbricata Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don Quercus lamellata Roxb. Quercus paucilamellosa A.DC. Cyclobalanopsis lamelloides (C.C.Huang) Y.T.Chang Cyclobalanopsis nigrinervis Hu Quercus lamelloides C.C.Huang

Quercus lamellosa(Nepali:फलाँट, Falant) (syn. Cyclobalanopsis lamellosa) is a species of Quercus native to the Himalaya and adjoining mountains from Tibet and Nepal east as far as Guangxi and northern Thailand, growing at altitudes of 1300-2500 m.

Quercus lamellosa is a medium-sized to large evergreen tree growing to 40 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter. The leaves are spirally arranged, ovate-elliptic, 16-45 cm long and 6-15 cm broad, with a sharply serrated margin. The flowers are catkins, the female flowers maturing into broad acorns 2-3 cm long and 3-4 cm broad, set in a deep cupule with concentric rings of woody scales.

Joseph Dalton Hooker commented,

Quercus lamellosa is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental tree in warm-temperate climates; in the British Isles, cultivation is only successful in the milder parts of Ireland and Cornwall.

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