Quercus boqueronae Trel. n. sp.
Twigs slender (2 mm.), fluted, glabrous, buff with more or
less evident lenticels. Buds dull light brown, glabrous,
rounded, scarcely 2 mm. in diameter. Leaves deciduous,
lanceolate, rather acute at both ends, entire to crenately
or serrately few-toothed, somewhat revolute, rather small (1.5-3 x 5-8 cm.),
glabrous, glossy above, rather dull
beneath; veins about 12 pairs, looped; petiole glabrous, about 1 x 5 mm. Catkins?.
Fruit annual, solitary or paired
on a glabrous peduncle 2 x 10-20 mm.; cup turbinately half-round, moderate (20
mm. in diameter), with rather thick
and acute appressed yellow-tomentose scales; acorn oblong-ovoid, 25 mm. long,
scarcely one-third included.
Central American region.