Quercus striatula Trel. 1924

Twigs slender (1-2 mm.), little fluted, from densely dingy-tomentose finally glabrescent and gray. Buds
glossy light red-brown, glabrescent, subglobose, 1 mm. in diameter. Leaves deciduous, subelliptical,
mucronately rather acute, rounded at base or exceptionally somewhat cordate, entire or with one or two
low serratures above, somewhat concave or channeled, revolute, very small (scarcely 1 x 1-2 cm.), finely
stellate-tufted above, minutely dingy tomentose beneath; veins about 6-8 pairs, forking and looped; somewhat
pinnately impressed above; petiole canescent, 1 x 2 mm. Catkins?. Fruit annual, subsessile, solitary or paired;
cup half-round, moderate (15 mm. in diameter), with somewhat thickened appressed acute grayish-tomentose
fulvous- or purple-tipped scales; acorn subglobose, about 10 mm. long, transiently glaucous, impressed-striate
(as in numerous other species), more than half included.