Quercus felipensis Trel. 1924

Twigs moderate (3-4 mm.), somewhat fluted, tawny-floccose through the
first season, when denuded rather dull red-brown with inconspicuous small
lenticels. Buds brown, somewhat hairy, oblong, at length 3 x 4 mm., the upper
for a time with thin and wavy brown stipules. Leaves deciduous, obovate, very
obtuse to subacuminate, rounded or slightly cordate at base, repand or
exceptionally somewhat shouldered or shallow-lobed above, slightly revolute,
large (6-11 x 11-17 cm.), glabrous above except for the tawny-tomentose flexuous
midrib, and impressed-veiny, firmly tawny tomentose-fleecy beneath; veins about
8-10 pairs, irregularly branched and somewhat looped, ending in weak bristles;
petiole fulvous-hairy, 2 x 10-15 or even 25 mm. Catkins?. Fruit biennial, solitary or
clustered on a peduncle about 3 x 5-10 or even 20 mm.; cup somewhat turbinate,
moderate (15 mm. in diameter), with thin appressed coarse blunt somewhat canescent
scales; acorn elongated-ovoid, 18 mm. long, scarcely onethird included.
Cordilleran region of Mexico.