Quercus Seemannt Liebmann 1854

Twigs rather slender (2-3 mm.), fluted, soon glabrate and rather red with small brown lenticels. Buds
somewhat glossy brown, glabrous, round-ovoid, 2 x 3 mm. Leaves deciduous, lanceolate, acute at both
ends or slightly acuminate and the apex aristate, entire, moderate (2.5-3.5 or 4 x 6-11 cm.), glossy and
glabrous on both faces or locally a little floccose on either, smooth or somewhat granular above; veins
about 10-15 pairs, often with several evanescent intermediates, forking and obscurely looped, the
venulation little raised above and less beneath; petiole glabrescent, 1 x 5 mm. Catkins: male 30 mm.
long, from dingy lanate glabrescent, rather closely flowered, the glabrous anthers somewhat exserted.
Fruit annual, solitary or paired on a peduncle 2 x 10-15 or even 30 mm.; cup half-round or turbinate,
rather small (scarcely 15 mm. in diameter), with thin appressed blunt pale-puberulent scales with brown
margin: acorn ovoid brown-pubescent, about half-included.