Lithocarpus uraianus

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lithocarpus uraianus, photographed by Jacy Chen — fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89604585

Lithocarpus uraianus, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin — fig. e Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12025204

Lithocarpus uraianus, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) — fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32413749

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Lithocarpus uraianus, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China Southeast	CHS	ASIA-TEMPERATE
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 450 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	7.8 °C	11.7 °C	14.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	26.6 °C	29.4 °C	31.1 °C
Annual rainfall	2,199 mm	3,702 mm	4,742 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	148 mm	576 mm	828 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 450 research-grade observations of Lithocarpus uraianus 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 13 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.

Castanopsis uraiana (Hayata) Kaneh. & Hatus.
Limlia randaiensis (Hayata) Hayata
Limlia uraiana (Hayata) Masam. & Tomiya
Lithocarpus randaiensis (Hayata) Hayata
Pasania randaiensis Schottky
Pasania uraiana Schottky
Quercus paohanii Chun & Tsiang
Quercus randaiensis Hayata
Quercus uraiana Hayata
Shiia randaiensis (Hayata) Koidz.
Shiia uraiana (Hayata) Kaneh.
Synaedrys randaiensis Koidz.
Synaedrys uraiana Koidz.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.