Quercus tepicana Trel. 1924
Twigs stout (4-5 mm.), scarcely fluted, glabrous, from purplish
becoming buff, with
small pale lenticels. Buds glabrous, glossy red browm. Leaves deciduous, broadly
elliptical, obtuse, cordate, slightly repand, not aristate, large (13 x 17 cm.),
glabrous
and glossy green above, sparingly dingy stellate-tomentose beneath; veins about
14 pairs,
obscurely looped; petiole quickly glabrescent, 4 x scarcely 15 mm. Catkins?.
Fruit
(disconnected) moderate (scarcely 15 mm. in diameter), the cup shallow-saucer-shaped
with thin appressed blunt subglabrescent scales, and the pubescent ovoid acorn
(scarcely 15 mm. long) covered at base only.
Western Sierra Madre region of Mexico.