Lithocarpus laetus Chun & C.C.Huang ex Y.C.Hsu & H.W.Jen

Species

Angiosperms > Fagales > Fagaceae > Lithocarpus

Characteristics

Trees to 30 m tall. Branchlets of current year tawny pubescent. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 7-11 × 1.5-3 cm, subleathery, abaxially pubescent, glabrescent, and with lax, rust-colored scalelike trichomes, adaxially pubescent when young but glabrescent except for midvein with age, base broadly cuneate and sometimes asymmetric, margin entire, apex acuminate; secondary veins 13-16 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially not visible. Infructescence ca. 4 cm; cupules in clusters of ca. 3. Cupule obconic to cupular, 1-1.2 × 2-2.2 cm, enclosing ca. 2/3 of nut, wall 2-4 mm thick; bracts imbricate, triangular, appressed. Nut broadly conical, 1.8-2 × 1.6-1.8 cm, with appressed, rust-colored minute hairs, base broadest, gradually narrowed apically, apex pointed, wall 1-2 mm thick; scar covering ca. 1/3 of nut, convex but margin ± impressed. Fr. Oct.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
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Distribution

Lithocarpus laetus world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:358828-1
WFO ID wfo-0000230023
COL ID 3VJXQ
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Synonyms

Lithocarpus laetus