Lithocarpus uvariifolius Rehder

Species

Angiosperms > Fagales > Fagaceae > Lithocarpus

Characteristics

Trees 10-15 m tall or shrubs 1-4 m tall; young branchlets, petioles, and rachis of inflorescences densely with tawny to rust-colored, ± coarse long hairs. Branches with large and conspicuous bud scars. Petiole 1-3.5 cm; leaf blade 4-22 × 2-10 cm, leathery to thickly papery, concolorous, base subrounded, margin dentate to undulate near apex or entire, apex acute, shortly caudate, or rarely shortly acuminate; secondary veins 22-35 on each side of midvein, abaxially pilose, abruptly curving apically, fusing near margin; tertiary veins abaxially conspicuous, subparallel, pilose. Male inflorescences spicate, solitary in axils of leaves or clustered at apex of branchlets; rachis stout. Female flowers usually borne on base of male inflorescence rachis, in clusters of ca. 3 or sometimes solitary. Infructescence with 1-4 developed cupules. Cupule cupular to subglobose, 2-3.5 × 3.5-5 cm, enclosing more than 1/2 of nut, outside puberulent and scurfy or rarely glabrescent, wall 2-5 mm thick; bracts narrowly oblong to lanceolate when young, rhomboid to multilateral with age. Nut subglobose, densely covered with appressed minute hairs, apex rounded, flat, or rarely concave, wall 4-8 mm thick; scar covering more than 1/2 of nut, convex. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Oct-Dec of following year.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 10.0 - 15.0
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AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-4
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 11-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Lithocarpus uvariifolius world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Lithocarpus uvariifolius threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:359041-1
WFO ID wfo-0000230308
COL ID 3VK73
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lithocarpus uvariifolius Quercus uvariifolia Pasania uvariifolia Synaedrys uvariifolia

Lower taxons

Lithocarpus uvariifolius var. ellipticus Lithocarpus uvariifolius var. uvariifolius