Quercus opaca Trel. 1924
Twigs elongated, slender (1.5-2
mm.), fluted, from densely fleecy glabrescent, gray with little conspicuous
lenticels. Buds brown, somewhat downy, subglobose, 2 mm. in diameter. Leaves
evergreen, elliptical to ovate,
mucronately acute, cordate, entire or with a few short pungent teeth above,
small (1-1.5 x 2.5-3.5 cm.), pale,
dull, and glabrous; veins about 10 pairs, fine, looped; petiole puberulent or
soon glabrate, 1x5 mm. Catkins:
male 40 mm. long, caducously fleecy, somewhat closely flowered, the glabrous
rounded anthers little exserted. Fruit?.