Castanopsis foxworthyi
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Description
Tree, (5-)15-3 6 m by 10-50 cm ø, occasionally fluted or with stout buttresses;
Branchlets initially densely set with fulvous, small, stellate hairs and larger bundle-hairs, or glabrous from the beginning;
Leaves thick-coriaceous, 8-22½ by 4-8 cm (index 2.1-3.6), widest about the middle, sometimes above, or below;
Stipules 6-8 by 1-2 mm.
Fruit 3 per cupule, more or less ovoid-conical, 1½-2 by 1-1½ cm, the scar covering 1/5-¼ part, convex;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present, Sarawak present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), Nunukan I present, Trengganu present
Malesia: Malay Peninsula (Trengganu); Borneo (Sarawak and Sabah; also Nunukan I.).
Notes
In the kerangas forest the twigs are rather straight and slender, in the mountains ("C. kinabaluensis") they are rather sturdy with shorter internodes, sometimes richer in lenticels, and with brown leaves in the dried state; in both habitats the leaves are smaller, thicker coriaceous, and with fewer nerves than under more favourable lowland conditions.