Castanopsis motleyana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Castanopsis motleyana King

Protologue: Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. 2: 96, t. 86 (1889).

Synonyms

Castanopsis pearsonii Merr. (1926).

Vernacular names

• Philippines: malagasa (general).

Distribution

Borneo and the Philippines (Mindanao).

Uses

The wood is reputed to be used as berangan.

Observations

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, bole up to 70 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 4 m high, bark surface rough, fissured or flaky, chocolate or reddish-brown; leaves (7-)15-23(-35) cm × (2.5-)7-10(-16) cm, with (11-)14-18(-21) pairs of secondary veins, below dull brown and glabrous to densely set with stellate scales and/or simple or 2-3-fid hairs; cupule 2.5-4 cm across, enclosing the single fruit, densely hairy, densely set with bundles of simple or branched spines, fruit with the smaller part adnate to the cupule. C. motleyana occurs in primary forest, rarely secondary or disturbed forest, on sandy-clayey soil in hilly country up to 500 m altitude.

Selected sources

81, 99, 162, 288, 412, 544.