Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Lithocarpus
48. Lithocarpus longipedicellatus (Hickel & A. Camus) A. Camus; Riviera Sci. 18: 41. 1931[1932].
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Pasania longipedicellata Hickel & A. Camus; Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 34: 365. 1928; Lithocarpus podocarpus Chun.
Trees to 20 m tall. Branches glabrous. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic; ovate; or ovate-elliptic; 8-15 x 3-6 cm; subleathery; abaxially with adherent; waxy scalelike trichomes and glaucous when dry; adaxially glabrous; base broadly cuneate; margin entire or sometimes undulate; apex acuminate to acute with tip obtuse to rounded; secondary veins 9-14 on each side of midvein; abruptly curving apically near margin but usually not fusing; tertiary veins abaxially slender; evident or not visible. Male inflorescences in a panicle or solitary in axils of leaves; rachis light yellowish gray scurfy. Female inflorescence 3-5 cm; cupules solitary; scattered on rachis soon after anthesis. Infructescence rachis base 8-10 mm thick; thicker than branches. Cupule discoid; 1.2-1.5 cm in diam.; enclosing basal part or rarely to middle of nut; wall less than 1 mm thick; bracts sometimes entirely or partly united into concentric rings; triangular; tiny but visible under lens; tawny scurfy. Nut depressed globose to subglobose; 1-1.4 x 1.2-2.2 cm; ± white glaucous; base flat; wall 0.5-1 mm thick; scar 0.7-1.8 cm in diam.; concave. Fl. Oct-Jan; Fl. Oct-Jan of following year.
Scattered in broad-leaved evergreen forests; below 1200 m. W Guangxi; Hainan; SE Yunnan [N Vietnam]