Lithocarpus fangii (Hu & Cheng) C.C.Huang & Y.T.Chang

Species

Angiosperms > Fagales > Fagaceae > Lithocarpus

Characteristics

Trees 8-15 m tall. Branchlets ± sulcate, tawny tomentose. Petiole less than 1 cm; leaf blade obovate, elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong, 5-10(-16) × 2-3(-4) cm, ± thickly papery, abaxially covered with appressed hairs more densely along midvein, base cuneate, margin entire, apex abruptly acute and shortly caudate; secondary veins 8-11 on each side of midvein, abruptly curving apically, obscure near margin; tertiary veins abaxially not visible. Male inflorescences congested at apex of branches, to 12 cm. Female and androgynous inflorescences terminal, to 15 cm. Female inflorescence with rachis 3-4 mm thick; cupules in clusters of ca. 3. Cupule bowl-shaped, 7-9 mm × 1.8-2 cm, enclosing ca. 1/2 of nut, wall 1-1.5 mm thick; bracts imbricate, triangular, squamose, appressed, tawny scurfy. Nut subglobose, glabrous, apex ± narrowed, wall ca. 1 mm thick; scar 1-1.2 cm in diam., concave. Fl. Oct-Dec, fr. Oct-Dec of following year.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
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Distribution

Lithocarpus fangii world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:945251-1
WFO ID wfo-0000229916
COL ID 72KY9
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Synonyms

Lithocarpus fangii Lithocarpus glaber var. szechuanicus