Quercus Radlkoferiana Trel. 1924

Twigs slender (2 mm.), more or less fluted, from stellate-villous glabrescent, brown with similarly
colored lenticels. Buds brown, glabrescent, round-ovoid, 2 mm. in diameter. Leaves deciduous?,
elliptical-obovate, acute, rounded at base, nearly entire to typically sharply and deeply serrate,
revolute, rather small (1.5-4 x 5-8 cm.), glossy and glabrous or with puberulent midrib above,
duller and rusty-stellate beneath; veins about 10 pairs, branched and incompletely looped; petiole
tomentose, 1 x 5 mm. Catkins?. Fruit annual, nearly sessile; cup turbinate, rather small (about
12 mm. in diameter), with thin rather loose acute red or golden-puberulent scales; acorn ovoid,
half-included.
Cordilleran region of Mexico.