Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Lithocarpus
85. Lithocarpus fenestratus (Roxburgh) Rehder; J. Arnold Arbor. 1: 126. 1919.
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Quercus fenestrata Roxburgh; Fl. Ind. ed. 1832; 3: 633. 1832; Lithocarpus fenestratus var. brachycarpus A. Camus; Pasania fenestrata (Roxburgh) Oersted; Synaedrys fenestrata (Roxburgh) Koidzumi.
Trees 25-30 m tall. Branchlets of current year pubescent or with tawny lamellate waxy scalelike trichomes. Petiole 5-10 mm; pilose; leaf blade lanceolate; ovate-oblong; or ovate-elliptic; 5-22 x 2-7 cm; papery to thickly papery; abaxially with yellowish gray to gray; adherent; waxy or lamellate scalelike trichomes; base cuneate to narrowly so and decurrent on petiole; margin entire; apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 12-17 on each side of midvein; sometimes adaxially impressed; abruptly arcuate apically near margin; apical ones often fusing; tertiary veins abaxially slender; evident; numerous; subparallel. Male inflorescences usually in a panicle. Female inflorescences to 25 cm. Infructescences to 18 cm; rachis 5-8 mm thick; cupules in clusters of ca. 3; only 1 or 2 developed. Cupule depressed globose; 1-2.8 cm in diam.; enclosing most of nut; wall 0.5-1 mm thick; bracts imbricate; triangular; appressed; sparsely covered with minute hairs and brown waxy scalelike trichomes. Nut depressed globose to broadly conical; wall 0.4-1 mm thick; scar 1-1.8 cm in diam.; concave. Fl. Aug-Oct; fr. Aug-Dec of following year.
Broad-leaved evergreen forests; below 1700 m. C to S Guangdong; SW Guangxi; Hainan; SE Xizang (M?dog Xian); Yunnan [Bhutan; NE India; Laos; NE Myanmar; Sikkim; N Thailand; NE Vietnam]