Lithocarpus hancei(Benth.) Rehder

WFO wfo-0000229957 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lithocarpus hancei, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2022-02-11 / obs. 179899135
Lithocarpus hancei, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180232157
Lithocarpus hancei, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160022245
Lithocarpus hancei, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. d Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 121729412
Lithocarpus hancei, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134017097
Lithocarpus hancei, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130176346
Lithocarpus hancei, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125875414
Lithocarpus hancei, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109510099

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Lithocarpus hancei is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan China South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwan
Native distribution of Lithocarpus hancei, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Taiwan TAI

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 537 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.4 °C 9.8 °C 13.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.2 °C 26.8 °C 30.0 °C
Annual rainfall 2,125 mm 3,095 mm 5,054 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 98 mm 205 mm 825 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 537 research-grade observations of Lithocarpus hancei that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 39 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cyclobalanopsis ternaticupula (Hayata) Kudô
  • Cyclobalanopsis ternaticupula f. arisanensis (Hayata) Kudô
  • Cyclobalanus hancei (Benth.) Oerst.
  • Cyclobalanus ternaticupula (Hayata) Nakai
  • Lithocarpus arisanensis (Hayata) Hayata
  • Lithocarpus arisanensis var. globosus C.F.Shen
  • Lithocarpus jingdongensis Y.C.Hsu & H.J.Qian
  • Lithocarpus kuarunensis (Tomiya) C.F.Shen
  • Lithocarpus kuarunensis var. lepidobalanus C.F.Shen
  • Lithocarpus matsudae Hayata
  • Lithocarpus mupinensis (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) A.Camus
  • Lithocarpus nitidinux (Hu) Chun ex C.C.Huang & Y.T.Chang
  • Lithocarpus omeiensis A.Camus
  • Lithocarpus spicatus var. mupinensis Rehder & E.H.Wilson
  • Lithocarpus subreticulatus (Hayata) Hayata
  • Lithocarpus ternaticupulus (Hayata) Hayata
  • Lithocarpus ternaticupulus f. matsudae (Hayata) J.C.Liao
  • Lithocarpus ternaticupulus var. arisanensis (Hayata) Kaneh.
  • Lithocarpus ternaticupulus var. subreticulata (Hayata) J.C.Liao
  • Pasania brevicaudata var. arisanensis (Hayata) S.S.Ying
  • Pasania confertifolia Hu
  • Pasania hancei (Benth.) Schottky
  • Pasania hancei var. arisanensis (Hayata) J.C.Liao
  • Pasania hancei var. ternaticupula (Hayata) J.C.Liao

and 15 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.