Quercus parviglans Trel. 1915
Twigs rather slender (2-3 mm.), fluted, soon glabrous, reddish
brown with small rather
prominent brown or pale lenticels. Buds rather light dull brown, glabrescent,
ovoid,
scarcely 2 x 3 mm. Leaves deciduous, elliptical, very obtuse to acute, rounded
at base,
entire, crisped slightly and revolute, moderate (2.5-4.5 x 7-10 cm.), slightly
glossy,
caducously stellate-fleecy but glabrescent except in sheltered places, the lower
surface
somewhat whitened; veins about 10 pairs, forking and looped; petiole more or
less
stellate-scurfy, about 1 x 5 mm. Catkins ?. Fruit annual, typically paired on
a peduncle
2 x 5 mm.; cup subumbonate-saucer-shaped, small (scarcely 10 mm. in diameter),
with
thin appressed small blunt scales at length glossy light brown; acorn oblong-ovoid,
8-10 mm. long, scarcely one-fourth included.
Central American region.