Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Lithocarpus
63. Lithocarpus pseudovestitus A. Camus; Bull. Soc. Bot. France. 86: 155. 1939.
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Trees to 25 m tall. Branches glabrous. Petiole rarely longer than 1 cm; leaf blade lanceolate to rarely oblong; 8-18 x 2-4 cm; thickly papery; abaxially gray and with a thick layer of waxy scalelike trichomes; adaxially glabrous; base cuneate and decurrent on petiole; margin entire; apex obtuse; subrounded; or rarely acute; secondary veins 9-14 on each side of midvein; adaxially sometimes slightly impressed; not fusing; tertiary veins abaxially not visible. Male inflorescences solitary in axils of leaves or in a panicle; rachis scurfy. Female inflorescences with cupules in clusters of 2 or 3; rarely solitary; base of cupule clusters narrowed; stalklike; to 5 mm. Infructescence rachis to 1 cm thick; sparsely lenticellate. Cupule discoid; 2-5 mm x 1-2 cm; covering base of nut; wall 0.2-0.5 mm thick; basal bracts united into concentric rings; small; tawny puberulent. Nut broadly conical; 1.2-1.5 x 1.6-2 cm; tawny puberulent; wall ca. 0.5 mm thick; scar 4-6 mm in diam.; concave. Fl. Aug-Oct; fr. Aug-Oct of following year.
Broad-leaved evergreen forests in valleys; 200-900(-1500) m. SW Guangdong; SW Guangxi; Hainan; SE Yunnan [N Vietnam]