Lithocarpus beccarianus (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Lithocarpus beccarianus (Benth.) A. Camus
- Protologue: Riviera Scient. 18: 39 (1932).
Synonyms
Quercus beccariana Benth. (1880), Pasania beccariana (Benth.) Prantl (1889), Synaedrys beccariana (Benth.) Koidz. (1916).
Distribution
Borneo (Sabah, Sarawak, Kalimantan).
Uses
The wood has probably been used as mempening for house construction.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 70 cm in diameter, bark surface smooth to scaly, greyish-brown to dark brown; leaves elliptical to narrowly elliptical, apex abruptly acute to acuminate, the surfaces discolourous, glabrous above, densely tomentose below, with (5-)7-8(-9) pairs of secondary veins prominent below, reticulation scalariform and distinct below, petiole 1-2 cm long; male flowers solitary or in clusters of 3, female flowers solitary; cupule on a stalk 1-1.5 cm long, ellipsoid, up to 6 cm across, covering the nut completely, longitudinally ridged and with 5-8 undulating lamellae, densely shortly tomentose; nut ellipsoid, densely tomentose, for the greater part adnate to the cupule. L. beccarianus occurs scattered in forest up to 1500 m altitude, found on dark brown sandstone-derived soils.
Selected sources
162, 234, 583.
