Quercus lanata Sm.

Trees to 30 m tall, evergreen. Young branchlets densely grayish brown pubescent, glabrescent. Petiole 0.5-1.5 cm, grayish brown tomentose, glabrescent; leaf blade narrowly ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 9-20 × 3-8.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially densely with grayish stellate hairs but glabrescent, adaxially densely pubescent especially on midvein, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin sharply serrate, apex acuminate; secondary veins 12-17 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially conspicuous. Female inflorescences axillary on young shoots, 4-14 cm; cupules 10 or more. Cupule cupular, 0.6-1 × 0.8-1.5 cm, enclosing 1/4-1/2 of nut, wall ca. 1 mm thick; bracts triangular, ca. 1 mm, basal bracts abaxially tuberculate, grayish brown pubescent. Nut ovoid-conical, 1.5-2 × 1-1.2 cm, glabrous; scar ca. 4 mm in diam., slightly raised; stylopodium ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Jun-Jul of following year.

A subtropical plant. In Nepal it grows from 1000-2600 m altitude. It can tolerate some shade. It can tolerate some frost.

The resin of the plant is boiled in water and taken as tea. The fruit is eaten.

Plants are grown from seed.