Quercus germana Schltdl.

Mexico (Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz); 700-2300 m;

reaches 20 m tall, but much smaller in cultivation;

12-19 x 4-9 cm; persistent or semi-evergreen; often crowded at the end of the twig; coriaceous; oboval, oblanceolate or elliptic; apex mucronate, obtuse or acute sometimes shortly acuminate; base acute or rounded, sometimes cordate, often asymmetrical; margin flat or slightly revolute, entire, undulate, or with 4-10 pairs of shortly mucronate teeth on the apical half; lustrous, dark green, nearly glabrous above; pruinose, waxy, glaucous, nearly glabrous beneath (some hairs on the midvein); 8-15 pairs of straight secondary veins, rather straight, almost flat adaxialy; epidermis papillose and slightly bullate; petiole 0.3-0.6 cm long, glabrous or with some stellate trichomes;

in March-April; male catkins 10-13 cm, pubescent, with 30-50 flowers; pistillate inflorescence 1-1.5 cm long, with 1-3 flowers;

acorn subglobose to ovoid, 2-4 cm long, 2,2 cm in diameter, rusty tomentose at apex; single or paired on a 12-40 mm long glabrous peduncle situated near the end of new twigs, seldom at leaf axils; 1/4 to 1/2 enclosed by cup; cup half-round, warty, pubescent, 1.5-3.5 cm in diameter; maturing first year in September to November;

– A. Camus : n° 196; – Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae; – For Susana Valencia-Avalos (2004), this species has an other synonym : Q.galeottii Mart. & Gal.,