Ostrya japonica — Details

Ostrya japonica Sarg.:
Japan (Asia)
South Korea (Asia)
China (Asia)

Flora of China Editorial Committee. 1999. Fl. China 4: 1–453. Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing & St. Louis. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1018510

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Physical Description

Morphology

Comments

The wood is hard and shiny, and is used in construction and making furniture.

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Description

Trees to 20 m tall; bark dark gray. Branchlets gray-brown, densely pubescent when young, glabrescent. Petiole 1-1.5 cm, densely pubescent; leaf blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3.5-12 × 1.5-5.5 cm, abaxially densely pubescent, glabrescent, bearded in axils of lateral veins, adaxially pilose especially along midvein, base subrounded, cordate, obliquely cordate, or broadly cuneate, margin irregularly and doubly serrate, apex acuminate; lateral veins 10-15 on each side of midvein, 5-10 mm apart. Female inflorescence racemose, 1.5-2.5 cm; peduncle 2-2.5 cm, densely pubescent; bracts overlapping, saccate, obovate-oblong or elliptic, 1-2 cm × 6-12 mm, membranous, glabrescent, base without a stipe, setose, apex apiculate; veins reticulate. Nutlet light brown, narrowly ovoid, 6-7 mm, shiny, glabrous, ribbed. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.

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Diagnostic Description

Synonym

Ostrya liana Hu.

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Ecology

Habitat

Habitat & Distribution

Temperate forests; 1000-2800 m. S Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan [Japan, Korea]

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Molecular Biology and Genetics

Molecular Biology

Statistics of barcoding coverage: Ostrya japonica

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Species: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1

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Ostrya japonica

Ostrya japonica (Japanese Hop-hornbeam) is a species of tree in the Betulaceae family growing to 25 m tall. It is native to Japan, Korea and China. In China, it occurs in temperate forests of southern Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, and Shaanxi provinces at altitudes between 1,000–2,800 metres (3,300–9,200 ft).^[1]

Sources

^ eFloras. "Ostrya japonica". Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200006219. Retrieved 12 April 2012.

Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan, 1984. ISBN 978-0-87474-708-9
Woody Plants of Japan, Vol. 1, 2000. ISBN 4-635-07003-4

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