Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Lithocarpus
13. Lithocarpus fenzelianus A. Camus; Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.; sér. 2. 7: 912. 1932.
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Quercus fenzeliana (A. Camus) Merrill.
Trees to 30 m tall. Young branchlets sulcate. Petiole 2-3 cm; leaf blade ovate; ovate-lanceolate; or obovate-elliptic; 10-18 x 3-6 cm; leathery; leaf blades of last year abaxially brownish gray to grayish and with adherent; waxy scalelike trichomes; base cuneate and decurrent on petiole; margin entire or undulate from middle to apex; apex caudate to shortly acuminate; secondary veins 7-10 on each side of midvein; usually impressed adaxially; tertiary veins abaxially obscure. Male inflorescences solitary or in a panicle; rachis pubescent. Female inflorescence ca. 15 cm; cupules solitary; scattered on rachis. Infructescence ca. 10 cm; rachis 3-4 mm thick. Cupule globose to depressed globose; 1.6-2.2 cm in diam.; completely enclosing nut; wall ca. 1 mm thick; bracts triangular when young; fused into 6-8 concentric rings on mature cupules; squamose. Nut subglobose; ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; apex puberulent; wall 0.5-1 mm thick; scar covering more than 2/3 of nut; convex. Fl. Feb-Apr; fr. Aug-Sep of following year.
* Broad-leaved evergreen forests; commonly in association with Dacrydium pectinatum and Dacrycarpus imbricatus var. patulus; 300-1000 m. Hainan