Quercus bella

{{Short description|Species of oak tree}}

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| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Carrero, C. |author2=Strijk, J.S. |year=2020 |title=Quercus bella |volume=2020 |page=e.T78806878A184348038 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T78806878A184348038.en |access-date=24 May 2023}}

| genus = Quercus

| display_parents = 2

| parent = Quercus sect. Cyclobalanopsis

| species = bella

| authority = Chun & Tsiang (1947)

| synonyms = Cyclobalanopsis bella (Chun & Tsiang) Chun ex Y.C.Hsu & H.Wei Jen (1993)

| synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:359412-1 Quercus bella Chun & Tsiang]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 May 2023.

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Quercus bella is an uncommon species of oak tree. It is native to Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Hainan provinces of southern China and to northern Vietnam.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=210000354 Flora of China, Cyclobalanopsis bella (Chun & Tsiang) Chun ex Y. C. Hsu & H. W. Jen, 1993. 槟榔青冈 bing lang qing gang] It is placed in subgenus Cerris, section Cyclobalanopsis.{{Cite web |last1=Denk |first1=Thomas |last2=Grimm |first2=Guido W. |last3=Manos |first3=Paul S. |last4=Deng |first4=Min |last5=Hipp |first5=Andrew L. |date=2017 |title=Appendix 2.1: An updated infrageneric classification of the oaks |website=figshare |doi=10.6084/m9.figshare.5547622.v1 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_2_1_________An_updated_infrageneric_classification_of_the_oaks/5547622/1 |access-date=2023-02-24 |format=xls |name-list-style=amp }}

Quercus bella is a tree up to 30 meters tall, with leaves as much as 15 cm long.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8441183#page/340/mode/1up Chun, Woon Young & Tsiang, Ying 1947. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 28(3): 326–327] description in Latin, commentary in English

It grows in humid hill and mountain forests from 200 to 1,172 metres elevation.