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.