Quercus alveolata Trel. 1924
Twigs moderate (3 mm.), scarcely fluted, tomentose with long
yellow hairs
somewhat persistent the second year, the bark then gray with small somewhat
raised brownish lenticels. Buds brown, glabrate, ovoid, 2 x 3 mm. Leaves deciduous,
elliptical or somewhat widened upwards, subacute, round-based, revolutely undulate
to coarsely serrate above, moderate (2-4 x 5-9 cm.), rather dull blue-green
and glabrous
except for the yellow hairy midrib and with very fine alveolate white venulation
above,
dingy stellate-pilose beneath; veins about 8 pairs, obscurely looped near the
margin;
petiole yellow-hairy or glabrate, scarcely 2 x 4 mm. Catkins: male apparently
short, the
small rounded glabrous anthers little exserted. Fruit?.
Cordilleran region of Mexico.