Quercus lowii

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Quercus lowii

Description

Tree, 10-20 m, 30-40 cm ø. Branchlets initially densely set with brownish stellate hairs, late glabrescent, dark grey, shallowly fissured; Leaves thick-coriaceous, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, (3-)5-10(-14) by 2-5½ cm; Stipules linear-acute, 2-4 by ¼-½ mm. Fruit ovoid-cylindrical, 1½-2 by 1.3-1.5 cm, top rounded or acute, base convex;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present), Mt Kinabalu present, Mt Liang Gagang present, western Kalimantan present
Malesia: Borneo (Sabah, various places, common on Mt Kinabalu; HALLIER 2950 from Mt Liang Gagang in western Kalimantan).

Notes

In the lowland specimens the leaves are glabrous, in mountain specimens they are mostly tomentose beneath; intermediates exist, see SOE-PADMO (1968).

Citation

A. CAMUS 1938: p. 366. – In: Chênes: t. 33: 27-29
SOEPADMO 1968: p. 394. – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: f. 10, map 9