Oaks of the World

2-6 cm long, 1-2 wide; evergreen; thick, coriaceous, stiff; more or less broadly elliptic or oval, sometimes lanceolate; apex acute to acuminate, shortly bristle-tipped; base rounded or subcordate; margin more or less thickened, revoluted, cartilaginous, entire, often undulate; dark green, sometimes yellowish above, rough and wrinkled due to impressed secondary and tertiary veins, glabrous or with minute, scattered, stellate hairs especially near base; densely rusty woolly tomentose beneath, scratchable, tomentum made of tangled fasciculate hairs and yellow, vermiform, glandular ones; 5-10 vein pairs, curved, impressed above, prominent beneath; epiderm papillose, somewhat bullate; petiole 0.3-0.9 cm long, tomentose;