Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Lithocarpus
11. Lithocarpus amygdalifolius (Skan) Hayata; Icon. Pl. Formosan. 6 Suppl.: 72. 1917.
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Quercus amygdalifolia Skan in F. B. Forbes & Hemsley; J. Linn. Soc.; Bot. 26: 506. 1899; Lithocarpus amygdalifolius var. praecipitiorum Chun; Pasania amygdalifolia (Skan) Schottky; Synaedrys amygdalifolia (Skan) Koidzumi.
Trees to 30 m tall; young shoots and young leaf blades abaxially densely covered with tawny crisp hairs; glabrescent. Petiole 1-2 cm; leaf blade lanceolate to narrowly oblong; 8-15 x 2.5-4 cm; ca. 20 x 9 cm on young shoots; thickly leathery; abaxially often oily when young and dry; grayish and covered with waxy scalelike trichomes in mature leaf blades; base cuneate; margin entire or rarely undulate near apex to obtusely undulate-dentate; apex narrowly acuminate to acute; secondary veins 10-16 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially not visible or obscure. Male inflorescencess solitary or in a panicle; rachis densely pubescent. Female inflorescence with cupules in clusters of ca. 3; sometimes solitary. Infructescences 3-5 cm; rachis 2-4 mm thick. Cupule subglobose; 2-2.5 cm in diam.; smooth; completely enclosing nut; wall 1-2 mm thick; bracts usually fused with cupule into intercepted concentric rings; triangular to multilateral. Nut subglobose 1.8-2 cm in diam.; puberulent at apex; wall 1.5-2 mm and slightly thicker than wall of cupule; scar covering more than 1/2 of nut; convex. Fl. Mar-Sep; fr. Aug-Dec of following year.
Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 500-2300 m.
S Fujian; Guangdong; S Guangxi; Hainan; C to S Taiwan [Vietnam]