Quercus Reevesii Trel. 1924

Twigs moderate (2-4 mm.), somewhat fluted, glabrate, olivaceous with rather prominent
pale lenticels. Buds apparently round-ovoid and of moderate size. Leaves deciduous,
oblanceolate, acute or slightly acuminate, cuneatelv narrowed to the obliquely rounded base
and entire in the lower third, coarsely mucronately serrate above, flat, rather large (3-5 x 10-18 cm.),
glossy and glabrous; veins about 15-18 pairs, the lower looped, the upper running into the teeth,
raised-reticulate; petiole loosely hairy, becoming glabrous, about 1 x 5 mm. Catkins?. Fruit annual,
sessile; cup openly goblet-shaped, very large (40-50 mm. in diameter) and thickwalled, with
keeled and basally thickened closely appressed pointed tomentose scales; acorn elongated ovoid,
as much as 35 x 50 mm., the lower third included.
Central American region.