Quercus repanda Humboldt & Bonpland 1809

Twigs mostly short and slender (1-2 mm.), somewhat fluted, densely rather
rusty stellatetomentose, becoming glabrate and brown with minute lenticels,
or gray, the second season. Buds brown, glabrescent, ovoid, 2 x 3 mm. Leaves
somewhat evergreen, elliptical, ranging into ovate or obovate, obtuse to acute,
rounded at base, entire or sparingly somewhat mucronately low-toothed above,
slightly crisped, revolute, small (1-2 x 3-4 cm.) sparingly scurfy but rather glossy
above, densely and tightly rusty-tomentose beneath; veins about 8 pairs, forked and
looping, more or less impressed above; petiole tomentose or scurfy, 1 x 5 mm.
Catkins: male 30-40 mm. long, densely stellate, closely flowered, the rounded
glabrous anthers exserted. Fruit annual, sessile or on a stalk 10 mm. long; solitary
or paired; cup deep-saucer-shaped, rather small (10-15 mm. in diameter), with
thin appressed acute reddish scales tomentulose below; acorn ovoid, 15 mm. long,
one-third or more included.
Mexican table-land.