Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Lithocarpus
106. Lithocarpus harlandii (Hance ex Walpers) Rehder; J. Arnold Arbor. 1: 127. 1919.
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Quercus harlandii Hance ex Walpers; Ann. Bot. Syst. 3: 382. 1852; Lithocarpus cuneiformis A. Camus; L. kawakamii (Hayata) Hayata var. chiaratuangensis J. C. Liao; Pasania chiaratuangensis (J. C. Liao) J. C. Liao; P. harlandii (Hance ex Walpers) Oersted; Q. harlandii var. integrifolia Dunn; Synaedrys harlandii (Hance ex Walpers) Koidzumi.
Trees to 18 m tall; glabrous except for inflorescences. Branchlets purplish brown; dark brown when dry; sulcate. Petiole 2-3 cm; leaf blade lanceolate; elliptic; or oblanceolate; 7-18 x 3-6 cm; rigidly leathery; abaxially with scalelike glands; base often asymmetric and attenuate-cuneate to rarely acute or subrounded; margin obtusely undulate-dentate on apical part or rarely entire; apex caudate and often falcate; secondary veins 8-13 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially obscure. Inflorescences terminal at apex of current years branches. Male inflorescences arranged in a panicle; rachis puberulent. Female inflorescence with cupules in clusters of ca. 3 or solitary; scattered on rachis. Infructescences 10-15 cm; rachis 4-5 mm thick. Cupule cupular; 6-10 mm x 1.4-2 cm; enclosing 1/10-1/6 of nut; wall 1-2 mm thick; bracts imbricate; triangular to rhomboid; lamellate; puberulent; margin and midvein ± ridged. Nut conical to broadly ellipsoid; 2.2-2.8 x 1.6-2.2 cm; apex rounded to obtuse; wall 1.5-2 mm thick; scar 0.9-1.2 cm in diam.; concave. Fl. May-Jun; fr. Sep-Oct of following year.
* Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 400-700 m. Fujian; Guangdong; S Guangxi; Hainan; Hunan; S Jiangxi; Taiwan; Zhejiang