Quercus strombocarpa
Liebm. 1854
Twigs rather stout (4-5 mm.), little fluted, tawny-hirsute, gray-buff with scarcely
conspicuous lenticels. Buds
glossy brown or the lower scales gray, glabrous, ovoid, at
length angular, 3-4 x 5-10 mm. Leaves elliptical-obovate,
obtuse to acute or very slightly acuminate, rounded at base, shallowly serrate
above the middle, somewhat crisped
and rather valleculate between the main veins, slightly revolute, large (6-9
x 14-17 cm.), glossy, glabrous above
except along the midrib, scarcely paler and sparingly pilose beneath; veins
about 18 pairs, scarcely looped; petiole
tawny-pilose, 2 x 10 mm. Catkins?. Fruit annual; cup shallow-turbinate, very
large (50 mm. in diameter), with coarse
heavy spreading or upcurved pointed yellowtomentose scales; acorn acutely conical,
very thick-walled, 40-50 mm. in
diameter, the lower third included.