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'中文名（Chinese Name）：刺榛
学名（Scientific Name）：Corylus ferox Wall.
英文名（English Common Name）：Himalayan hazelnut
别名（Chinese Common Name）：滇刺榛
异名（Synonym）：
科属（Family & Genus）：桦木科（Betulaceae）榛属
形态特征（Description）：乔木或小乔木，高5-12米；树皮灰黑色或灰色；枝条灰褐色或暗灰色，无毛；小枝褐 色，疏被长柔毛，基部密生黄色长柔毛，有时具或疏或密的刺状腺体。叶厚纸质，矩圆形或 倒卵状矩圆形，很少宽倒卵形，长5-15厘米，宽3-9厘米，顶端尾状，基部近心形或近圆 形，有时两侧稍不对称，边缘具刺毛状重锯齿，上面仅幼时疏被长柔毛，后变无毛，下面沿 脉密被淡黄色长柔毛，脉腋间有时具簇生的髯毛，侧脉8-14对；叶柄较细瘦，长1-3.5 厘米，密被长柔毛或疏被毛至几无毛。雄花序1-5枚排成总状；苞鳞背面密被长柔毛；花 药紫红色。果3-6枚簇生，极少单生；果苞钟状，成熟时褐色，背面密被短柔毛，偶有刺状腺体；上部具分叉而锐利的针刺状裂片。坚果扁球形，上部裸露，顶端密被短柔毛，长1-1.5厘米。
分布（Distribution）：产西藏、云南、四川等地，生于海拔2000-3500米的山坡林中。印度及尼泊尔也有。
用途（Use）：种子可食。
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 4 Page 287
Corylus ferox Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 77. 1830.
刺榛 ci zhen| Betulaceae  | Corylus
Trees to 20 m tall; trunk to 30 cm d.b.h.; bark dark gray or gray, fissured. Branchlets purplish brown, pubescent, sometimes stipitate glandular, glabrescent, with scattered, minute lenticels. Petiole 1-3.5 cm, densely pilose when young, glabrescent; leaf blade ovate-oblong, obovate-oblong, obovate, or elliptic, 5-15 × 3-9 cm, papery, abaxially bearded in axils of lateral veins, pilose and sparsely glandular, adaxially sparsely pilose especially along impressed midvein when young, base very obliquely rounded or subcordate, margin sharply and doubly mucronate serrate, apex long acuminate to caudate-acuminate; lateral veins 8-14 on each side of midvein. Male inflorescence ca. 2 cm; bracts broadly ovate, tomentulose, apex acute to acuminate; anthers purple. Female flowers 4-6 in a cluster; bracts campanulate, densely pubescent, sometimes stipitate glandular, with laciniate segments forming branching, pungent spines. Nut ovoid-globose, subcompressed, 1-1.5 cm in diam., apex pubescent. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 22.
Forests on mountain slopes; 1500-3800 m. SE Gansu, Guizhou, W Hubei, Ningxia, Shaanxi, E and SW Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, N Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim].
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