16 September 2019.
North Carolina, United States
Locality: Transylvania County; ; Southern Highland Reserve: Toxaway Mountain, service road (name unknown), adjacent to Southern Highlands Reserve at power line cut.
Coordinates: 35.1314, -82.9825
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Elevation: 1451m.
Environment description: Roadside edge, disturbed opening (power line cut): mountaintop mixed Oak-Chestnut woodland (forest margin at high elevation); rich, moist woodland; soil type unknown.
Associated species: Coreopsis major:Dennstaedtia punctilobula:Eupatorium spp.:Rhododendron vaseyi:Ageratina altissima var. altissima:Symplocos tinctoria:Rhododendron maximum:Sorbus americana:Galax urceolata:Quercus velutina:Lysimachia quadrifolia:Potentilla canadensis:Gentiana sp.:Hamamelis virginiana:Helianthus sp.:Castanea pumila:Diervilla sessilifolia
Aspect: ;
Slope: 0 Degrees
Comment: Tree; height 35 ft; DBH 39.9 cm; bark dark brown to black, narrowly fissured; leaves ovate to elliptic or obovate (base rounded, apex acute), margins with 3 to 7 deep lobes, abaxially tawny-pubescent, adaxially glossy and glabrous or puberulent along midrib; flowers not present; acorns green to tan.
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