08 September 2019.
Kentucky, United States
Locality: Powell County; ; Daniel Boone National Forest: Red River Gorge Area, Tunnel Ridge Road.
Coordinates: 37.7994, -83.6543
(Map it)
Elevation: 380m.
Environment description: Road edge: Upland mixed Oak, Red Maple, Black Gum woodland, Oak-Pine Ridge Top; growing in dry, acidic, unproductive, silty clay loam soil.
Associated species: Pinus strobus:Pinus virginiana:Quercus coccinea:Helianthus microcephalus:Nyssa sylvatica:Smilax rotundifolia:Viburnum acerifolium:Juniperus virginiana:Cornus florida:Desmodium sp. aff. D. paniculatum:Liriodendron tulipifera:Pinus sp.
Aspect: ;
Slope: 10 Degrees;
Soil Texture:
Comment: Tree; height 25 to 30 ft; DBH 8.6 cm; bark gray, smooth with some irregular fissures; leaves broadly elliptic to obovate-oblong (base truncate to deeply cordate or auriculate, apex acute to short-acuminate or obtuse); margins entire or wavy; abaxially chalky-white sometimes pale-green and pilose, adaxially deep green and glabrous; 50 to 110 cm by 15 to 30 cm; flowers not present; folliceta globose-ovoid.
Collector(s): - Deng, Tao, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS
- Gao, Xinfen, Chengdu Institute of Biology
- Gapinski, Andrew, Arnold Arboretum
- Halloran, Sean, Arnold Arboretum
- Magnan, Angela, U.S. National Arboretum
- Rubinstein, Jared, Arnold Arboretum
- Wang, Kang, Beijing Botanical Garden