Quercus eugeniaefolia
Liebm. 1854
Twigs slender (2 mm.), fluted, from floccose quickly glabrate, reddish becoming
gray with small brown lenticels.
Buds light brown, glabrescent, ovoid, at length 2 x 3 mm. Leaves deciduous,
lanceolate or, when larger,
oblanceolate, acute at both ends, aristate, entire or somewhat crisply undulate,
scarcely revolute, rather
small (2-3 x 7-10 or 4-5 x 15 cm.), glossy green and glabrous on both faces;
veins about 20 pairs, alternately
finer and evanescent, nearly horizontal, forked and looping; petiole winged,
glabrous, scarcely 1 x 2 mm.
Catkins?. Fruit biennial?, (immature) solitary and very short-stalked, the as
yet round cup with thin appressed
blunt scales becoming light brown and glossy where abraded.