Quercus Standleyi Trel. 1924

Glabrous and glossy. Twigs rather slender (2-3 mm.), little fluted, orange-brown
with minute pale lenticels. Buds brown with tomentulose-ciliate scales, subglobose,
2 mm. in diameter. Leaves deciduous ?, elliptical-obovate, very obtuse, the
somewhat contracted base rather rounded, coarsely crenate, rather large
(6-10 x 13 or 12 x 15-24 cm.), paler beneath, veins rosy at base, about 12 pairs,
branched and somewhat looped, whitened beneath like the midrib and the
cartilaginous margin; petiole red, 1.5-2.5 x 3—6 mm. Floweis and fruits ?
Western Sierra Madre region of Mexico.