Quercus acatenangensis Trel. 1924
Twigs slender (2 mm.), fluted, glabrous, dark red, with small
pale lenticels. Buds glossy light
brown, glabrous, ovoid, 2 x 3 mm. Leaves scarcely evergreen, elongated lanceolate,
acute at
both ends, entire, low mucronate-dentate, or with irregularly placed deltoid
teeth, moderate
(2 x 10 to 3 x 9 or 5 x l5 cm.), glossy and glabrous on both faces; veins about
10-12 pairs,
often with evanescent intermediates, branching and looped; petiole glabrous,
1 x 10 mm.
Catkins?. Fruit biennial, solitary, or several on a peduncle 3-4 x 10-20 mm.;
cup turbinate,
moderate (scarcely 15 mm. in diameter), with thin somewhat loose acute canescent
scales;
acorn ovoid, half-included.
Central American region.