Lithocarpus auriculatus (Hickel & A. Camus) Barnett (Fagaceae): A New Record for the Flora of India from the Eastern Himalayas

Abstract

ABSTRACT Lithocarpus Blume is one of the largest genera of Fagaceae and is distributed mostly in tropical to temperate forests. Evidence on the occurrence of L. auriculatus (Hickel & A. Camus) Barnett, a Vulnerable species from the Kalimpong Himalayas of West Bengal, India was documented and marks the distributional range beyond the previously reported regions of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam in Southeast Asia.