Lithocarpus lucidus
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Description
Tree 15-40 m, 20-120 cm ø;
Branchlets initially densely fulvous stellate hairy, soon glabrescent, with 3-5 sharp ribs decurrent under the leaf-insertion, pale to dark brown, sparsely lenticellate;
Leaves chartaceous to coriaceous, (4-)8-15(-18) by (2-)3-5(-7) cm (index 2-3½), broadest at or more commonly above the middle;
Stipules linear-acute to subulate, 5 by 2 mm, soon caducous.
Inflorescence male, female or androgynous, densely fulvous stellate hairy;
Distribution
Asahan present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sarawak present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Indragiri present, Langkat present, NE. Kalimantan present, Nunukan I present, Penang present, Riouw present
Malesia: Sumatra (Asahan, Langkat, Indragiri, and Riouw), Malay Peninsula (common, also Singapore and Penang), Borneo (Sarawak, NE. Kalimantan, and Nunukan I.).
Notes
Specimens from the lowland forest, attributed by most previous authors to L. omalokos, usually have a thin, pale greyish brown leaf with an acute or abruptly cuspidate top, and those from above 1000 m, usually credited to L. lucidus, have the leaves thick-coriaceous, dark brown, with rounded to obtuse-emarginate top. Recent collections from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo show that the lowland and montane forms can not be considered as separate species, as there are many intermediates.
Among the loan of Fagaceae received from Brussels, I found the MSS. name Quercus cuneata, a name originally proposed by ROXBURGH, but which he in the Calcutta Herbarium deliberately changed into Quercus lucida ROXB. A. DE CAN-DOLLE, unaware of this, validated Quercus cuneata ROXB. which is consequently a later, superfluous homonym of Quercus lucida.
Among the loan of Fagaceae received from Brussels, I found the MSS. name Quercus cuneata, a name originally proposed by ROXBURGH, but which he in the Calcutta Herbarium deliberately changed into Quercus lucida ROXB. A. DE CAN-DOLLE, unaware of this, validated Quercus cuneata ROXB. which is consequently a later, superfluous homonym of Quercus lucida.
Citation
A.DC. 1864 – In: Prod. p 92
Corner 1940: Ways. Trees: 304. f. 95
King 1889: p. 69. – In: Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. t. 64
Hook.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Br. Ind. p 614
Hook.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Br. Ind. p 614
GAMBLE 1915 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng. p 439
A. CAMUS 1954: p. 690. – In: Chênes. t. 386: 1-15
A. CAMUS 1954: p. 695. – In: Chênes. t. 387: 9-20
SOEPADMO 1970 – In: Reinwardtia. p 254
King 1889: p. 70. – In: Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. t. 23 B.