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Lithocarpus bennettii (Miq.) Rehder

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Lithocarpus in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Journ. Arn. Arb. 1: 123 (1919).

Quercus bennettii Miq. (1856), Quercus miqueliana Scheff. (1870), Pasania bennettii (Miq.) Gamble (1915).

Indonesia: pasang-pasang suluh (Sumatra). Malaysia: mempening bagan (Peninsular).

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Bangka and Borneo.

The wood is used as mempening, e.g. for house construction, furniture and interior finish.

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, bole up to 100 cm in diameter, sometimes with low buttresses or stilt roots, bark surface smooth to fissured, grey-brown, inner bark fibrous inwards, granular outwards, dull brown to red; leaves narrowly elliptical, (7—)9—12(—15) cm (2.5—)3—5(—6) cm, apex bluntly to sharply and long acuminate, the surfaces discolourous, glabrous above, densely glaucous tomentose below, with 9—13 pairs of thin secondary veins prominent below, reticulation subscalariform, obscure, petiole 0.5—1.5 cm long; male flowers solitary or in clusters of 2—3, female flowers solitary; cupule short-stalked, saucer-shaped, 1—2 cm across, covering the basal part of the nut, with 5—7 lamellae, densely stellate hairy; nut ovoid-conical, glabrous, for the greater part free from the cupule. Lithocarpus bennettii is fairly common in lowland and lower montane forest, sometimes in swamp forest, heath forest or mixed dipterocarp forest, on various soil types, up to 1000(—1500) m altitude. The wood is heavy and hard and has a density of 900—1105 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

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M.S.M. Sosef

Sosef, M.S.M., 1995. Lithocarpus bennettii (Miq.) Rehder. In: Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Soerianegara, I. and Wong, W.C. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 5(2): Timber trees; Minor commercial timbers. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea