Castanopsis foxworthyi (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Castanopsis foxworthyi Schottky
- Protologue: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 49: 358 (1913).
Synonyms
Castanopsis kinabaluensis A. Camus (1928).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia (rare) and Borneo (Sabah and Sarawak).
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used as berangan.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 36 m tall, bole up to 50 cm in diameter, sometimes fluted or with stout buttresses, bark surface smooth or finely fissured, flaky, greyish-brown; leaves 8-22.5 cm × 4-8 cm, with 9-14 pairs of secondary veins, brownish-greenand glabrous below; cupule 3-3.5 cm × 2-3 cm, enclosing the 3 fruits, velvety, with 4-5 concentric bands of simple or tree-like branched sturdy spines, fruit with the smaller part adnate to the cupule. C. foxworthyi is found in primary and secondary peat-swamp and kerangas forest, and also in montane forest, up to 2500 m altitude.
Selected sources
81, 99, 162, 288, 463.