| Half-Toothed-Leaf Oak |
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| Original date | 5/8/24 11:29 AM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 200.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Quercus semiserrata Family: Fagaceae (Beech family)
Synonyms: Cyclobalanopsis semiserrata, Quercus annulata
Synonyms: Cyclobalanopsis semiserrata, Quercus annulata
Half-Toothed-Leaf Oak is a tree up to 10 m tall.
Branchlets are woolly when young, becoming hairless. Leaf-stalk 1-2 cm,
hairless; leaf blade ovate-oblong to obovate-inverted-lanceshaped,
13-25 × 3-7 cm, thinly papery, hairless, base wedge-shaped, margin
entire, toothed toward the tip. Tip is tapering to blunt; midvein and
secondary veins below prominent and above slightly raised or flat;
secondary veins 9-12 on each side of midvein, curving near margin.
Acorns sit in a bowl-shaped cup, about 1.2 × 2.5 cm, enclosing 1/2-2/3
of the acorn, bracts in 6-9 rings, margin wavyly finely toothed. Acorns
are oblong-ellipsoid, 3.5-4 x about 2.2 cm, hairy, tip rounded.
Half-Toothed-Leaf Oak is found in Bhutan to East Himalaya, China and SE
Asia, at altitudes of 400-500 m.
| Identification credit: Vinay Kumar Sahani | Photographed in Miao, Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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