Castanopsis schefferiana (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Castanopsis schefferiana Hance
- Protologue: Journ. Bot. 16: 200 (1878).
Synonyms
Castanopsis andersonii Gamble (1914).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, the Riau and Lingga Archipelago and north-eastern Sumatra.
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used as berangan.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 60 cm in diameter, sometimes with buttresses up to 1.2 m high, bark surface smooth, grey, inner bark soft, granular, pink to yellow; leaves (6-)8-12(-18) cm × (1-)3-5(-7) cm, with 10-15 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous throughout; cupule 3.5-4 cm wide, enclosing the 2-3 fruits, more or less densely hoary puberulous or felty, densely set with single or bundles of sturdy spines, fruit with the smaller part adnate to the cupule. C. schefferiana is fairly common and occurs up to 1000 m altitude.
Selected sources
81, 162, 705.