Lithocarpus schlechteri
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Description
Tree 10-26 m, 10-50 cm ø;
Branchlets initially densely fulvous to rufous tomentose by adpressed stellate hairs, later glabrous, dark greyish brown, finely fissured or sparsely lenticellate;
Leaves thin-coriaceous, (7-)8-12 (-16) by (3-)3½-5(-6) cm (index 2.2-2.7), broadest at or rarely below the middle;
Stipules ovate, 1-1½ by 1 mm.
Inflorescence male or androgynous, densely greyish stellate hairy;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, from the Vogelkop Peninsula to the eastern parts present
Malesia: New Guinea (from the Vogelkop Peninsula to the eastern parts, rather common).
Notes
Quercus imperialis — Synaedrys imperialis (VON SEEMEN) . — L. imperialis (VON SEEMEN) , may belong here, but as the author did not indicate any particular specimen, and described the species based on a single cupule (lost), and the description cannot be recognized with certainty, the later name schlechteri is here accepted.
L. perclusa was based on a specimen with very young cupules, while L. schlechteri was based on a specimen with ripe cupules. Recent collections from New Guinea show that they are conspecific.
The cupule of L. schlechteri is so far the largest among known species in New Guinea.
L. perclusa was based on a specimen with very young cupules, while L. schlechteri was based on a specimen with ripe cupules. Recent collections from New Guinea show that they are conspecific.
The cupule of L. schlechteri is so far the largest among known species in New Guinea.