Quercus sebifera Trel. 1924
Densely golden-tomentose
when unfolding, becoming glabrous. Twigs slender (2 mm), fluted, gray with
scarcely evident lenticels. Buds glossy brownb, glabrate, rounded, 2 mm in diameter.
Leaves evergree,
elliptical, subacute, rounded at base, entire or crenate-serrate often with
strongly revolute sinuses, small
(1,5-2 x 3,5-5,5 cm), dull; veins about 8 pairs, looped, somewhat pruinose beneath;
petiole pubescent,
1 x 5 mm. Catkins : male 30 mm long, floccose, rather closely flowered, the
glabrous rounded anthers
nearly sessile; female 25 mm long, several-flowered toward the end. Fruit annual
?; cup saucer-shaped,
rather small (10-12 mm in diameter), with somewhat thickened appressed acutish
canescent scales; acorn ?