Castanopsis psilophylla
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Description
Tree, 10-27 m by 20-45 cm ø;
Branchlets glabrous almost from the beginning, smooth, dark purplish brown, lenticels none or very few;
Leaves somewhat discolorous, mostly glossy above, glabrous on both sides, (6-)10(-16) by (1-)3½(5) cm (index (2.3-)2.8-4.2), widest about the middle, sometimes below;
Stipules linear, 3-4 mm, very early caducous.
Inflorescence male, female, or mixed.
Fruits 3 or more, ovoid-complanate, 1½-2 cm through, scar covering 2/5-4/5 part of the surface, the remainder densely brownish tomentose.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Kalimantan present, Sabah present, Sarawak present); Philippines (Philippines present), Banguey I present, Palawan present
Malesia: Borneo (Sabah, common; Sarawak, rare, in the northern parts; Kalimantan, scattered in the eastern half), also Banguey I., Philippines (Palawan, EBALO 408).
Notes
The nearly ripe fruit recorded green.
Nearest to C. inermis and C. philipensis; see the key. Bornean records of C. inermis belong here.
C. brevispina , non HAYATA 1911, might belong here, but the description of the cupule does not agree in all points, and the type specimen, FOXWORTHY 156 from Sarawak, seems to be lost.
Nearest to C. inermis and C. philipensis; see the key. Bornean records of C. inermis belong here.
C. brevispina , non HAYATA 1911, might belong here, but the description of the cupule does not agree in all points, and the type specimen, FOXWORTHY 156 from Sarawak, seems to be lost.