Quercus malifolia Trel. 1924

Twigs rather slender (2-3 mm.), somewhat fluted, dingy gray-tomentose. Buds glossy brown,
glabrescent, ovoid, 2 x 3 mm. Leaves deciduous ?, elliptical, mucronately rather obtuse, rounded
at base or subcordate, entire, somewhat crisped and revolute, moderate (3-4 x 6-10 cm.), glossy
deep green and glabrous above except for the scurfy midrib, detachably dingytomentose beneath,
the denuded surface scarcely raised-bullate; veins about 10-12 pairs, repeatedly forking and irregularly
looped; petiole stellate-hairy, 2 x 3 mm. Catkins ?. Fruit biennial, solitary or paired on somewhat hoary
peduncles scarcely 2 x 10 mm.; cup turbinate, moderate (15 mm. in diameter), with somewhat
thick-based rather revolute-margined blunt gray- or brown-puberulent scales, its margin incurved;
acorn ovoid, 12 mm. in diameter, more than half-included.
Mexican table-land.