Lithocarpus clementianus (King) A.Camus

Tree 10-36 m, 30-70 cm ø; bark deeply fissured, brownish. Branchlets initially angular, sparsely stellate hairy, later terete, glabrous, blackish brown, finely fissured; terminal buds ellipsoid, 3-5 by 1-2 mm, scales linear. Leaves coriaceous, (10-)12-16(-20) by (3-)4-5(-7) cm (index 3-3½), broadest at or slightly below the middle; above glossy, greyish green to pale chocolate-brown, underneath densely fulvous to pale grey tomentose by adpressed, minute, stellate hairs, subglabrescent; base acute, margin recurved, top 1-1½ cm acuminate; midrib prominent on both sides; nerves 10-14 pairs, thin, parallel at an angle of c. 45°, arcuat-ing but not anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation fine, dense, subscalariform, obscure; petiole ½-1 cm, 2 mm ø, glabrous, adaxially flat. Inflorescence male, androgynous or mixed, densely yellowish brown, adpressed stellate hairy, subglabrescent; bracts and bracteoles ovate to linear, ½-2 by ⅓-⅔ mm. Male rachis 10-15 cm, 2-3 mm ø; ♂ flowers in clusters of 3-7, filaments 2½-3½ mm, anthers 0.2-0.25 mm long, pistillode subglobose, 1-1½ mm ø. Androgynous or mixed rachis 5-10 cm, 2-5 mm ø; female flowers solitary or in clusters of 2-3, staminodes rudimentary, styles 3, conical, 2-3 mm, recurved. Ripe cupule sessile, cup-shaped, 1-1½ cm long, 2½-3 cm ø; rim 1-2 mm thick, covering ¼-⅓ part of the fruit; wall woody, 3-4 mm thick, inside densely fulvous tomentose by adpressed simple hairs, outside sparsely stellate hairy by adpressed stellate hairs, glabrescent; lamellae 6-8, rather prominent, concentric. Ripe fruit depressed subglobose, 1-1½ cm long, 2-3 cm ø, glabrous, top rounded-umbo-nate, base truncate, scar concave, c. 1 cm ø; wall woody, c. 2 mm thick, for the greater part free from the cupule.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the rainforest. It grows up to 1,800 m above sea level.