Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Lithocarpus
49. Lithocarpus brachystachyus Chun; J. Arnold Arbor. 28: 230. 1947.
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Trees 3-8 m tall; bud scales and young leaf blades often with brown ± translucent resin when dry. Branchlets dark brown to blackish when dry; glabrous; sparsely lenticellate. Petiole less than 1 cm; leaf blade ovate to ovate-elliptic; 3-7 x 1-3 cm; rigidly leathery; dark brown when dry; abaxially with grayish adherent waxy scalelike trichomes; adaxially glabrous; base sometimes asymmetric; margin entire; apex acute to caudate-acuminate with tip obtuse to rounded. Male inflorescences axillary; solitary; rarely in clusters of 2-4; 3-5 cm; rachis slender; 1-2 mm thick. Female inflorescences rarely over 5 cm; rachis grayish scurfy; cupules 3-10 or solitary; cupule stalks ca. 1 mm; 4-7 mm in fruit. Cupule discoid; 2-5 mm x 1-1.5 cm; enclosing ca. 1/3 of nut; bracts ± united into concentric rings from base to middle of cupule; triangular; obscure. Nut depressed globose to conical; 1-1.4 x 1.2-1.6 cm; glabrous; base flat; scar 7-10 mm in diam.; concave. Fl. Oct-Nov or Feb; fr. Aug-Oct of following year.
* Mixed mesophytic forests; 800-1000 m. SW Guangdong; Hainan (Changjiang Xian)