Lithocarpus dasystachyus
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Description
Tree 5-18 m, 10-25 cm ø;
Branchlets densely velvety tomentose by greyish to reddish brown adpressed stellate hairs and erect simple or stellate hairs;
Leaves thick-coriaceous, rigid, (12-)15-20(-25) by (4½-)6-8(-10) cm (index 2-3), broadest about the middle;
Stipules ovate-acute to deltoid, 1-2 by 1½ mm.
Inflorescence male, androgynous or mixed, densely yellowish brown to rufous tomentose by erect simple and adpressed stellate hairs;
Notes
Three more or less distinct forms may be recognized, viz one which occurs exclusively in peat-swamp forest, characterized by its large leaf with greyish brown indumentum, a form which is apparently confined to heath forest with a smaller leaf and less tomentum on the leaf and fruit, and one which occurs in forest on a better drained soil having a large leaf densely set with yellowish to reddish brown, erect simple hairs, and with strongly prominent venation. Several intermediates have, however, been collected.
Records of L. dasystachyus from the Philippines are referred to L. mindanaensis.
Records of L. dasystachyus from the Philippines are referred to L. mindanaensis.