Quercus barbanthera Trel. 1924

Twigs rather slender (2-3 mm.), little fluted, from golden-villous becoming gray, or glabrate and
rather glossy brown with small lenticels the second year. Buds evidently rather dull brown and
glabrescent. Leaves deciduous (immature), subelliptical, acutish, obtuse at base or subcordate,
serrate, large (4 x 10 cm. before the end of the flowering season), caducously golden stellate-fleecy
above, densely rusty-matted beneath: veins about 8 pairs: petiole very hairy, 2x5 mm. Catkins: male
becoming 70-100 mm. long, rusty-fleecy, loosely flowered, the loosely hairy globose anthers little
exserted; female equally long, with one or two sets of flowers above the middle. Fruit ?.
Central American region.