Lithocarpus maingayi

Lithocarpus maingayi is an endemic tree species in Southeast Asia from the beech family ( Fagaceae ).

Features

Lithocarpus maingayi is an evergreen tree.

The fruit cup ( cupula ) is urn -shaped, the nut completely encloses and yet extends beyond the tip out. It opens a little at the top. The base of the fruit cup is inverted - conical and narrower than the top. The surface of the cupula is clearly marked with three to four horizontal lines filamentous.

The nut is upside - conical.

Bloom time is from September to November. Fruit ripening is from November to January.

Dissemination and locations

The species occurs in Thailand and Malaysia. It grows in tropical evergreen lowland forests on granite base in 100 to 500 m above sea level.

System

The British botanist George Bentham described the species in 1880 as Quercus maingayi. In the 1910s there were several proposals to assign the species from a different genus: Ernst Max Schottky she ordered a 1912 as Pasania maingayi, 1916 ordered the Japanese botanist Gen'ichi Koidzumi the species as Synaedrys maingayi turn differently.

The German -American botanist Alfred Rehder finally ordered the way in 1919 under the currently valid name Lithocarpus maingayi in the genus Lithocarpus a; its contribution appeared in the first edition of his newly founded journal Journal of the Arnold Arboretum.