Fagaceae FAMILY
Lithocarpus harmandii
Lithocarpus harmandii
Edibility
1/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Lithocarpus harmandii is an evergreen tree that can grow up to 20 metres tall. The straight bole can be up to 50cm in diameter[ 443 Title Biotik, Laos Publication Author Website http://biotik.org/species_list_laos.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Information on more than 100 species of Laotian trees. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeSoutheast Asia - Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia.
HabitatTropical evergreen and dry evergreen forests, oak-pine deciduous dipterocarp forest, deciduous dipterocarp forest, on sandstone and granite bedrocks, at elevations from 50 - 1,300 metres but usually 200 - 900 metres[ 940 Title Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) No. 34 Publication Author Thawatchai Santisuk (Editor) Publisher The Forest Herbarium (BKF); Chatuchak, Bangkok. Year 2006 ISBN 0495-3843 Description A botanical journal, publishing papers on taxonomy (especially vascular plants), nomenclature, phylogeny, systematics, plant geography, and floristics; also morphology, palynology, cytotaxonomy, chemotaxonomy, anatomy and other relevant disciplines. ].