Quercus miguelitensis Trel. 1924
Twigs slender (2 mm.), fluted, glabrous, red, without conspicuous
lenticels. Buds
glossy dark brown, somewhat hairy above, 2 mm. in diameter. Leaves evergreen,
obovate, obtuse to acute, rounded at base, narrowly revolute, entire or undulate
to
pungently low-serrate, small (2-3 x 4-5 cm.), glabrous and glossy above, detachably
tawny stellate-tomentose beneath, the denuded surface scarcely granular; veins
about
6-8 pairs, rather obscurely looped, with the secondaries impressed above; petiole
red,
glabrescent, 1 x 5-10 mm. Catkins?. Fruit biennial, sessile, the young cups
somewhat
turbinate, with thin appressed scales from hoary becoming glossy brown and glabrous.
Mexican table-land.