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Lithocarpus formosanus; photograph (c) 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2013-03-16

Lithocarpus formosanus (Skan) Hayata

Fagaceae · Taiwan

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Summary

Lithocarpus formosanus is a species of tree in the family Fagaceae. L. formosanus is a medium-sized tree with crooked trunk and many branches. It is endemic to Taiwan as it only occurs in the Hengchun Peninsula in the extreme south of the country. It grows in mixed mesophytic forests at elevations of 100–500 m (330–1,640 ft). More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Lithocarpus formosanus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km (1 at sea or ice); three are needed for an envelope. 33 of the 38 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTaiwan · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker22.04, 120.86 · in the densest population, 37 records (97% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 38 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 20 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 33 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 38 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), some rights reserved (CC BY) (4).

Other Lithocarpus 25 in the reference

Lithocarpus amygdalifolius Lithocarpus amygdalifolius Fagaceae Photo: CC BY, 謝麗霦Lithocarpus brevicaudatus Lithocarpus brevicaudatus Fagaceae Photo: CC BY, Yu-Chang Chen Lithocarpus cleistocarpus Fagaceae Lithocarpus corneus Lithocarpus corneus Fagaceae Photo: CC BY, 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) Lithocarpus dealbatus Fagaceae Lithocarpus dodonaeifolius Lithocarpus dodonaeifolius Fagaceae Photo: CC BY, 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng ZengLithocarpus edulis Lithocarpus edulis Japanese stone oak Photo: CC BY, 大澤風季 ohsawa_FukiLithocarpus elegans Lithocarpus elegans Fagaceae Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta RoyLithocarpus glaber Lithocarpus glaber Japanese-oak Photo: CC BY, 黃美滿Lithocarpus hancei Lithocarpus hancei Fagaceae Photo: CC BY, Yu-Chang ChenLithocarpus harlandii Lithocarpus harlandii Fagaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Lithocarpus henryi Henry Tanbark Oak all 26 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Pasania formosana; Quercus formosana; Synaedrys formosana. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fagaceae
Described by
(Skan) Hayata
Native to
Taiwan
Wild records
38 in range · 20 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km (1 at sea or ice); three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Lithocarpus formosanus (Skan) Hayata (the item's: IPNI 358763-1, POWO 358764-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 10 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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