Quercus acapulcensis Trel. 1924
Twigs slender (2 mm.), fluted, more or less transiently scurfy.
Buds dull brown, ovoid,
about 2 x 3 mm. Leaves deciduous, oblanceolate, acute, mostly rather rounded
at base,
at flowering time small (2.5 x 10 cm.) but in maturity rather large (4-5 x 13-16
cm.), entire,
crisped, glossy, glabrous except for conspicuous axillary tufts beneath, the
veinlets rather
sharply raised on both faces; petiole glabrate, very short (2-5 mm.). Catkins:
male 80-100 mm
long, glabrescent, closely flowered, the round-ellipsoid slightly cobwebby anthers
exserted.
Fruit ?
Western Sierra Madre region of Mexico