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

Species

Angiosperms > Fagales > Fagaceae > Lithocarpus

Characteristics

Trees to 20 m tall. Branches glabrous. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic, ovate, or ovate-elliptic, 8-15 × 3-6 cm, subleathery, abaxially with adherent, waxy scalelike trichomes and glaucous when dry, adaxially glabrous, base broadly cuneate, margin entire or sometimes undulate, apex acuminate to acute with tip obtuse to rounded; secondary veins 9-14 on each side of midvein, abruptly curving apically near margin but usually not fusing; tertiary veins abaxially slender, evident or not visible. Male inflorescences in a panicle or solitary in axils of leaves; rachis light yellowish gray scurfy. Female inflorescence 3-5 cm; cupules solitary, scattered on rachis soon after anthesis. Infructescence rachis base 8-10 mm thick, thicker than branches. Cupule discoid, 1.2-1.5 cm in diam., enclosing basal part or rarely to middle of nut, wall less than 1 mm thick; bracts sometimes entirely or partly united into concentric rings, triangular, tiny but visible under lens, tawny scurfy. Nut depressed globose to subglobose, 1-1.4 × 1.2-2.2 cm, ± white glaucous, base flat, wall 0.5-1 mm thick; scar 0.7-1.8 cm in diam., concave. Fl. Oct-Jan, Fl. Oct-Jan of following year.
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
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Mature height (meter) 20.0
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Distribution

Lithocarpus longipedicellatus world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:358851-1
WFO ID wfo-0000230059
COL ID 3VJYK
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Synonyms

Lithocarpus longipedicellatus Pasania longipedicellata Lithocarpus podocarpus