Quercus greggii (A.DC) Trel. 1924.
Twigs moderately stout (3 mm.), little fluted, rusty stellate-tomentose
becoming glabrous and gray with prominent small lenticels the second year. Buds
hairy, round-ovoid, 2 mm. in diameter. Leaves evergreen, elliptical-obovate,
mucronately very obtuse, cordate, entire or slightly repand above, somewhat
revolute, rather small (3-5 x 4-7 cm.), papillate and glabrate except for the
granular or puberulent midrib above, rusty stellate-floccose beneath, the denudable
surface bullate-granular; veins about 6-8x2, repeatedly branching and mostly
looped at some distance from the margin; petiole tomentose or glabrate, 2 x
5-10 mm. Catkins?. Fruit apparently annual, nearly sessile, moderate, the cup
with thin appressed acute brown-hairy scales; acorn somewhat conical, 20 mm.
long, apparently covered only at the base.