Trees; branches and leaf blades glabrous. Shoots blackish brown when dry. Petiole 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic, ovate, lanceolate, or sometimes obovate, 10-20 × 4-7 cm, thickly leathery, abaxially often grayish, adaxially yellow-green when dry, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire, apex mucronate to acuminate; midvein adaxially raised; secondary veins 10-13 on each side of midvein. Infructescences 10-25 cm; rachis covered with pale grayish brown, feltlike, short hairs, glabrescent. Cupule globose, 2.5-3.5 cm in diam., puberulent when young, outside glabrescent, wall 1-1.5 mm thick; bracts spinelike, arranged in discontinuous rings or spirals, 2-6 mm, free or base slightly connate. Nut 1(-3) per cupule, subglobose, 1.5-1.8 cm in diam., densely puberulent. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Oct-Dec of following year.
More
A tree. The branches and leaf blades are smooth. The shoots are blackish brown when dry. The leaf stalk is 1-2.5 cm long. The blade is oval or sword shaped. It is 10-20 cm long by 4-7 cm wide. It is thickly leathery. The base is heart shaped or rounded. It tapers to the tip and can have a sharp tip. There are 10-13 side veins. The fruiting stalk is 10-25 cm long. The cup is round and 2.5-3.5 cm across. It is softly hairy when young. It has spine like bracts. The nut often occurs singly but there may be 3. They are round but flattened. They are 1.5-1.8 cm across. They are densely hairy.
Home
