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.