• Family : Fagaceae
  (Beech Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MORU FAMILY (मोरु फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Fagaceae
• Synonym(s) : Pasania pachyphylla (Kurz) Schottky; Synaedrys pachyphylla (Kurz) Koidz.; Quercus pachyphylla Kurz
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Lithocarpus pachyphyllus (Kurz) Rehder
• Common name : Thick Leaved Oak
• Vernacular name : Thil(Mizo); Badaa Katus(Nepali)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Locally dominant in forests in extreme
• Comments / notes : Thick Leaved Oak is a small tree with a low, spreading crown of branches
• Key identification features : Flowers spikes very slender to 15 cm longer than the leaves. Nut depressed-globular
• Flower, Fruit : May-August
• Distribution :
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
• Native : India, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet
• Exotic/Native : Native
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 377
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Lithocarpus pachyphyllus. Downloaded on 4 March 2021.

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