Quercus liebmannii Oerst.

Mexico (Oaxaca, Puebla, Guerrero); 1000 to 2500 m;

reaches 10 m tall;

9-25 x 4-16 cm; deciduous; leathery; oboval to oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic; apex rounded or blunt; base narrowed, rounded or sometimes cordate; young leaves pinkish-yellow tomentose; mature leaves adaxially green, lustrous, hairless or with some stellate hairs along midrib and at the base of the blade; abaxially with persistent, dense, whitish tomentum made of fasciate and glandular hairs, except on primary veins; margin not revolute, wavy, sinuate-dentate, with 7-13 pairs of short mucronate teeth. 10-16 vein pairs, prominent beneath; petiole 4-15 mm long, glabrescent.

acorn 1.5-3 cm long, ovoid, silky at apex; singly or clustered, on 2-8 cm long stalk; cup halfround enclosing 1/3 of nut, with greyish pubescent scales; maturing first year; free cotyledons;

zone 8-9; withstands -13° C;

– Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae; – For Zavala-Chavez, 2003, it is a subspecies of Q. magnoliifolia .