Quercus scytophylla
Liebm.1854
Twigs moderate (3 mm.), fluted, from minutely scurfy glabrescent, dark reddish,
dull, with prominent small
at first brown lenticels. Buds glossy brown, glabrescent, ovoid, 2 x 3 mm. Leaves
deciduous?, lanceolate to
typically obovate, mostly acute, obliquely rather rounded at base, entire or
typically coarsely several-toothed
above, large (mostly 7-8 x 13-15 cm.), glabrous and glossy above, densely and
tightly creamy-tomentulose
beneath; veins about 8 pairs, somewhat forking, obscurely looped; petiole glabrate,
1.5 x 20 mm. Catkins?.
Fruit annual, solitary on a stalk scarcely 3 x 5 mm.; cup deep-saucer-shaped,
rather small (about 12 mm.
in diameter), with thin appressed blunt brownish pubescent scales; acorn ovoid,
15-20 mm. long, covered
at base only.