Castanopsis psilophylla (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Castanopsis psilophylla Soepadmo

Protologue: Reinwardtia 7: 401 (1968).

Distribution

Borneo and the Philippines (Palawan).

Uses

The wood is reputed to be used as berangan.

Observations

A medium-sized tree up to 27 m tall, bole up to 60 cm in diameter, sometimes with buttresses up to 2 m high, bark surface smooth or scaly or slightly fissured, greyish-brown; leaves 6-16 cm × 1-5 cm, with 7-12 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous throughout; cupule 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, enclosing the 2-4 fruits which are golden velvety and covered with several ridges of short, sometimes recurved, pointed tubercles, fruits adnate to the cupule for less than half to about 80% of their surface. C. psilophylla occurs in primary forest on sandy or basaltic soil, in undulating country up to 1000 m altitude.

Selected sources

99, 162, 412, 582.