Quercus amphioxys Trel. 1924
Twigs rather slender (scarcely 3 mm.), fluted, soon glabrous,
rather red with small
brown lenticels. Buds somewdiat glossy below, brown, fulvous-hairy above, ovoid-fusiform,
3 x 6-7 mm. Leaves lanceolate, acuminately attenuate at each end, entire, somewhat
blistered,
narrowly revolute, large (5-6 x 16 to nearly 25 cm.), glossy and glabrous on
both faces; veins
about 15 pairs, repeatedly forking but scarcely looped. Flowers and fruit?.
Central American region.