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.