Lithocarpus fordianus (Hemsl.) Chun

Trees usually less than 10 m tall; branchlets, leaf blades abaxially, and inflorescences rachis tawny pilose and with stellate hairs. Petiole 1-3 cm; leaf blade oblong to obovate-elliptic, 10-25 × 3-9 cm, thickly papery, concolorous, base cuneate and sometimes asymmetric, margin at least near apex remotely dentate, apex acute, caudate, or rarely acuminate; secondary veins (15-)20-28 on each side of midvein, basal ones fusing near margin, apical ones ending in teeth; tertiary veins abaxially slender, evident, subparallel. Inflorescences usually androgynous, 3-10 cm; male flower on distal 1/2. Female inflorescence cupules fewer than 10, in clusters of ca. 3 or sometimes solitary. Infructescence rachis ca. 5 mm thick. Cupule cupular, 2-3 × 2.5-3.5 cm, enclosing 2/3-3/4 of nut, wall ca. 1 mm thick; bracts triangular to rhomboid, center and margin ridged, tawny puberulent and scurfy or rarely glabrescent. Nut turbinate, ca. 2 × 3 cm, hairy, apex rounded or flat, wall 4-10 mm thick; scar covering more than 1/2 of nut, convex. Fl. May-Sep, fr. Aug-Oct of following year.

SW Guizhou, S Yunnan [Vietnam]

Broad-leaved evergreen forests, frequent in moist sites; 700-1500 m.

Quercus fordiana Hemsley, Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 27: t. 2664. 1901; Synaedrys fordiana (Hemsley) Koidzumi.

Lithocarpus fordianus là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cử. Loài này được (Hemsl.) Chun mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1927.

密脉柯（学名：Lithocarpus fordianus）是壳斗科柯属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的云南、贵州等地，生长于海拔700米至1,500米的地区，多生于常绿阔叶林中以及湿润地方，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。