Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Litsea
73. Litsea elongata (Nees) J. D. Hooker; Fl. Brit. India. 5: 165. 1886.
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Evergreen small or medium-sized trees; up to 12 m tall; ca. 40 cm d.b.h. Branchlets densely brown tomentose. Leaves alternate or subverticillate; petiole 2-25 mm; densely brown tomentose; leaf blade oblong; oblong-lanceolate; narrowly lanceolate; or oblanceolate; 5-22 x 1.2-6 cm; pubescent abaxially and villous along midrib and lateral veins; glabrous adaxially; lateral veins 10-20 pairs; transverse veinlets conspicously prominent abaxially; base cuneate or rounded; apex obtuse; shortly acuminate; caudate-acute; or long caudate-acute. Umbels solitary; rarely clustered; 4- or 5-flowered per umbel; peduncle absent or to 10 mm. Male flowers: pedicel sericeous-villous; perianth segments 6; ovate; fertile stamens 9-12; filaments villous; of 3rd or 4th whorls each with 2 sessile rounded glands at base; rudimentary pistil glabrous. Fruit oblong; 11-13 x 7-8 mm; seated on cup-shaped perianth tube; black-purple at maturity; fruiting pedicel 2-3 mm. Fl. May-Nov; fr. Feb-Jun.
Roadsides; streamsides; weed-tree forests on mountain slopes; shady moist places; sparse forests; thickets; 500-2300 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Xizang; Yunnan; Zhejiang [India; Nepal].
This species is variable in the size and shape of its leaves; especially in repeatedly disturbed secondary forests or dense thickets.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Lithocarpus
113. Lithocarpus litseifolius (Hance) Chun; J. Arnold Arbor. 9: 152. 1928.
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Trees to 20 m tall; branchlets and petioles sometimes ± white farinose when dry. Petiole 1.5-2.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic; obovate-elliptic; ovate; or rarely narrowly elliptic; 8-18 x 3-8 cm; papery to subleathery; concolorous to ± glaucous abaxially; base cuneate to broadly so; margin entire; apex acuminate to acute; secondary veins 8-11 on each side of midvein; obscure near margin; tertiary veins abaxially slender; evident; lax; reddish to yellowish brown when dry. Male inflorescences in a panicle; rarely solitary; to 25 cm. Female and androgynous inflorescences usually 2-6 congested at apex of branches; spiciform; to 35 cm; rachis sparsely pubescent; cupules in clusters of 3-5. Infructescences to 30 cm; rachis slender; rarely over 5 mm thick. Cupule plate-shaped; 0.8-1.5 cm in diam.; covering base of nut; outside glabrous; wall 0.5-1 mm thick and woody basally; bracts imbricate but basal ones connate into concentric rings; triangular; appressed. Nut broadly conical; subglobose; or rarely depressed globose; 0.8-1.5 x 1.2-2 cm; glabrous or often ± white farinose; wall 0.2-0.5 mm thick; scar ca. 1.1 cm in diam.; concave. Fl. May-Sep; fr. Apr-Oct of following year.
Broad-leaved evergreen forests; dense forests; 500-2500 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Laos; NE Myanmar; N Vietnam]
Specimens reported from China as the Indian Lithocarpus polystachyus (Wallich ex A. de Candolle) Rehder are referable to L. litseifolius var. litseifolius.