Quercus galeottii Martens.
Twigs rather stout (4 mm.), somewhat fluted, evanescently velvety, dull gray-brown
with conspicuous pale lenticels.
Buds brown, glabrous, ovoid, 2-3 x 4 mm. Leaves evergreen?, oblanceolate, acute,
rather obliquely cuneate,
crenate-serrate except toward the base, minutely revolute, large (5-7 x 12-17
cm.), glossy green and glabrous on
both faces; veins about 13 pairs, scarcely looped; petiole glabrate, 1 x 10-15
mm. Catkins?. Fruit annual, subsessile
or on a stalk scarcely 10 mm. long; cup half-round, very large (35-40 mm. in
diameter), with somewhat thickened and
loose acute tomentulose scales; acorn ovoid, 30-40 mm. long, about one-third
included.