Lithocarpus elegans
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Description
Tree 5-30 m, 20-70 cm ø;
Branchlets glabrous, greyish brown, sparsely to densely lenticellate;
Leaves thick-coriaceous, rigid, (9-)12-17(-20) by (3-)4-6(-8) cm (index (1½-)2-3(-5)), broadest at or above the middle;
Stipules narrowly ovate to linear, 3-6 by 1-2 mm.
Inflorescence sturdy, male, androgynous or rarely mixed, densely fulvous simple and stellate hairy;
Fruiting rachis up to 30 cm, carrying numerous clustered cupules.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; East Himalaya (Bhutan present); India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Burma present, Chittagong present, E. Pakistan present, Nepal present
India (Bhutan, Nepal), E. Pakistan (Chittagong), Burma, Indo-China; in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo (common), Celebes (rare).
Notes
L. elegans is the most widely distributed, and narurally the most variable species, and probably the most primitive in the genus. In the past seven or more varieties have been distinguished, and some of them even had been recognized as distinct species. After examining a vast number of collections, I came to the conclusion that none of these varieties deserves to be regarded as separate species. There are many intergrades, and the variations are mainly due to different habitats. The species as accepted here is recognizable by the glabrous, pale to dark chocolate-brown leaves, glossy on both sides, with somewhat irregular reticulation, and by the cupules which are always squamose and set in dichasial clusters of 3-10. In the flowering stage, it may be distinguished by the rigid and sturdy inflorescence with the flowers in clusters of 3-15.
Records from New Guinea relate to L. megacar-pus; and those from China probably to L. henryi.
The above synonymy covers Malesia only, the complete one is given in Reinwardtia l.c.
Records from New Guinea relate to L. megacar-pus; and those from China probably to L. henryi.
The above synonymy covers Malesia only, the complete one is given in Reinwardtia l.c.
Citation
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