Quercus pilicaulisTrel. 1924

Twigs moderate (3 mm.), somewhat fluted, for a time covered with long loose staring yellow hairs.
Buds red-brown, glabrescent, round-ovoid, 2 x 3 mm., the upper with persistent stipules. Leaves
deciduous?, elliptical-oblanceolate or obovate, rather acute, rounded at base, rather deeply crenate,
rather large (4-8 x 10-16 cm.), glossy and glabrous above except for the somewhat scurfy or pilose
midrib, sparingly pale-fleecy beneath; veins about 10 pairs, little branched and scarcely looping; petiole
yellow-villous, about 2 x 5 mm. Catkins l Fruit annual, paired at end of a more or less staringly hairy
peduncle scarcely 4 to as much as 40 mm. long; cup rather shallow, moderate (15 mm. in diameter),
with thin appressed acute yellowtomentose scales; acorn ovoid, 15 mm. long, less than one-third included.
Central American region.