Lithocarpus beccarianus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Lithocarpus beccarianus (Benth.) A. Camus

Protologue: Riviera Scient. 18: 39 (1932).

Quercus beccariana Benth. (1880), Pasania beccariana (Benth.) Prantl (1889), Synaedrys beccariana (Benth.) Koidz. (1916).

Borneo (Sabah, Sarawak, Kalimantan).

The wood has probably been used as mempening for house construction.

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.

162, 234, 583.