Quercus nitidissima Trel. 1924

Twigs usually rather short and slender (2 mm.), fluted, from minutely
stellate-scurfy gla¬ brescent and brownish with small lenticels. Buds glossy
brown, glabrescent, round-ovoid, 2 x 3 mm. Leaves deciduous, ovate, mucronatel
y acute, cordate, entire or very low-repand, small (1.5-2 x 2.5-4 cm.), very glossy
deep green on both faces, glabrous and finely whitevenulose above, detachably
white-stellate beneath with inconspicuous veinlets; veins about 6 pairs, looped;
petiole puberulent, 1 x 5 mm. Catkins: 8 , 20 mm. long, fleecy, closely flowered,
the glabrous oblong anthers little exserted, Fruit?.
Mexican table-land.