Lithocarpus longanoides

Description

Trees - m tall.Young branchlets covered with tawny,crisp,short hairs,blackish when dry.Branches of last-year growth densely lenticellate;lenticels visible only under lens.Petiole ca.. cm;leaf blade ovate,elliptic,or lanceolate,-0 × .-. cm,rigidly papery,abaxially at least along midvein densely covered with tawny,early glabrescent,short hairs and with tiny,grayish glandular dots,adaxially reddish brown to dark brown when dry,base decurrent on petiole,margin entire or rarely ± undulate near apex,apex narrowly acuminate to caudate;secondary veins - on each side of midvein,abruptly curving apically near margin but not fusing;tertiary veins abaxially not visible or very slender,evident.Male inflorescences in a panicle,- cm;rachis densely tawny puberulent.Androgynous inflorescences often with male flowers above middle;cupules in clusters of ca..Cupule globose to ± depressed,-. cm in diam.,usually almost completely enclosing nut,wall less than mm thick and crustaceous when dry;bracts fused to cupule except for subulate apex ca. mm,triangular,reddish brown when dry.Nut depressed globose to subglobose,0.-. cm in diam.,glabrous;scar - mm in diam.,concave.Fl.Jul-Oct,fr.Jul-Oct of following year.