Quercus cancellata Trel. 1924

Twigs rather slender (2-3 mm.), little fluted, soon glabrous and somewhat
glossy, from greenish becoming gray with rather prominent small lenticels.
Buds dull brown, glabrescent, rounded and 2 mm. in diameter or at the end
bluntly ovoid and 3 x 5 mm. Leaves deciduous ?, subelliptical, obtuse or
emarginate or mucronate, rounded at base, crisped and somewhat shallow-toothed
above, rather small (2.5-3.5 x 5-7 cm.), slightly glossy green, minutely
canceflate-venulose and sparingly stellate-tufted above, dull, openly stellate,
and coarsely veiny beneath; veins about 7-10 pairs, rather forking, looped;
petiole loosely stellate-villous, 1 x 5 mm. Catkins?. Fruit annual, 1-3 at end
of a scurfy reddish peduncle 1.5 x 15-30 mm.; cup (immature) round, 8 mm. in
diameter, with thin appressed blunt scales brown where abraded; acorn as yet
round, silky, included.
Cordilleran region of Mexico.