Lithocarpus echinophorus (Hickel & A.Camus) A.Camus

Species

Angiosperms > Fagales > Fagaceae > Lithocarpus

Characteristics

Trees ca. 15 m tall; branchlets, petioles, and rachis of inflorescences covered with early glabrescent, short hairs. Branchlets blackish when dry, inconspicuously lenticellate. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic, narrowly elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, 9-15 × 1.5-4 cm, subleathery, base cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate; secondary veins 10-17 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially not visible. Infructescences ca. 10 cm; rachis ca. 1.2 cm thick; immature cupules in clusters of ca. 3, oblong when young, apically flat. Cupule enclosing all of nut or occasionally only 1/2, wall ca. 3 mm thick; bracts linear to subulate, ± curved. Nut depressed globose; scar concave but center ± convex. Fr. Oct-Nov.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
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Mature height (meter) 10.5 - 12.5
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Soil texture 5-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Lithocarpus echinophorus world distribution map, present in China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:358733-1
WFO ID wfo-0000229886
COL ID 6QKWH
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Synonyms

Pasania echinophora Lithocarpus echinophorus Lithocarpus echinophorus var. bidoupensis Lithocarpus echinophorus var. chapensis Lithocarpus echinophorus var. echinophorus