Woolly Leaved Oak

Trees to 30 m tall, evergreen. Young branchlets densely grayish brown pubescent, glabrescent. Petiole 0.5-1.5 cm, grayish brown tomentose, glabrescent; leaf blade narrowly ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 9-20 × 3-8.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially densely with grayish stellate hairs but glabrescent, adaxially densely pubescent especially on midvein, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin sharply serrate, apex acuminate; secondary veins 12-17 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially conspicuous. Female inflorescences axillary on young shoots, 4-14 cm; cupules 10 or more. Cupule cupular, 0.6-1 × 0.8-1.5 cm, enclosing 1/4-1/2 of nut, wall ca. 1 mm thick; bracts triangular, ca. 1 mm, basal bracts abaxially tuberculate, grayish brown pubescent. Nut ovoid-conical, 1.5-2 × 1-1.2 cm, glabrous; scar ca. 4 mm in diam., slightly raised; stylopodium ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Jun-Jul of following year.

Himalaya (Kumaun to NEFA), Burma, Indo-China.

Guangxi, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, N India, Myanmar, Nepal, N Thailand, Vietnam]

W. Pakistan, Himalaya (Kumaun to Nepal), Ceylon, ?Burma.

460-2600 m

1500-2400 m

Mixed mesophytic forests; 1900-3000 m.

Quercus leucotrichophora A. Camus; Q. tungmaiensis Y. T. Chang.

Quercus lanata, the woolly-leaved oak, is a species of Quercus native to southern and southeastern Asia, including India (from eastern Uttarakhand to Arunachal Pradesh), Bhutan, Nepal, Indochina (Vietnam, Myanmar, northern Thailand), and southwestern China (Guangxi, Tibet, Yunnan). It is a large evergreen tree up to 30 metres (100 feet) tall. The leaves are thick and leathery, green on top but covered in thick wool on the underside. It is classified in subgenus Cerris, section Ilex.

This oak tree grows up to 20 m tall, and under the synonym Quercus oblongata has been recorded from Vietnam, where it may be called sồi bạc or sồi bạch mao.