Lithocarpus encleisacarpus
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Description
Tree 10-40 m, 25-75 cm ø;
Branchlets initially densely fulvous to rufous tomentose by adpressed, stellate hairs, later subglabrous, dark greyish brown, sparsely lenticellate;
Leaves thin-coriaceous, 12-15 by 4-6 cm (index 2-3), broadest about the middle;
Inflorescence male, female or androgynous, densely fulvous stellate-hairy;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present, Sarawak present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Peninsular Siam present
Peninsular Siam (Songkla, KERR 15883), in Malesia: Sumatra (scattered), Malay Peninsula (common; also Singapore), Borneo (scattered in Sarawak and Sabah).
Notes
Specimens from above 900 m, usually have a smaller cupule and fruit, and the cupule is cup-shaped, covering c. ½ of the fruit; these have sometimes been distinguished as var. aperta.
Citation
Bl. 1850 – In: MUS. Bot. p 288
A. CAMUS 1954: p. 767. – In: Chênes. t. 406: 1-5, incl. var.
Hook.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Br. Ind. p 617
A.DC. 1864 – In: Prod. p 103
Corner 1940: Ways. Trees: 302. f. 95, 98
SOEPADMO 1970 – In: Reinwardtia. p 239
King 1889: p. 80. – In: Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. t. 75: 1-4
WENZIG 1886 – In: Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. p 238