Lithocarpus hypoglaucus (Hu) C.C.Huang ex Y.C.Hsu & H.W.Jen

Species

Angiosperms > Fagales > Fagaceae > Lithocarpus

Characteristics

Trees 10-20 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Petiole 1.5-2 cm; leaf blade ovate to lanceolate, 7-15 × 2-6 cm, thickly papery, concolorous when young, abaxially glaucous and often with scurfy scalelike glands with age, adaxially glabrous, base attenuate-cuneate and decurrent on petiole, margin entire, apex acuminate to acute; secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially inconspicuous. Male inflorescences solitary or in a panicle, 6-15 cm. Female inflorescences at apex of branches, 7-15 cm; rachis with scurfy scalelike glands; cupules in clusters of (2 or)3. Cupule plate-shaped when mature, 1.5-5 mm × 1.2-1.8 cm, covering on base of nut, wall 0.5-1.5 mm thick; bracts imbricate, triangular, small, appressed, with tawny, scurfy scalelike glands. Nut depressed globose to broadly conical, 1-1.5 × 0.8-2 cm, apex slightly concave to pointed, wall ca. 0.5 mm thick; scar 0.8-1.2 cm in diam., concave. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Aug-Oct of following year.
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Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Lithocarpus hypoglaucus world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:358795-1
WFO ID wfo-0000229975
COL ID 3VJWF
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Synonyms

Pasania hypoglauca Lithocarpus houanglipinensis Lithocarpus hypoglaucus Lithocarpus wangianus Pasania yungjenensis