Quercus segoviensis Liebm.

Nicaragua ; Honduras ; Guatemala ; Mexico (Chiapas) ; 650 - 2500 m ;

8-15 m tall usually; sometimes smaller (5 m) ;

8-13 x 4-7 cm; deciduous; leathery but rather thin; obovate or oblanceolate; apex obtuse or acute, mucronate or not; base cuneate or obtuse, asymmetrical, cordate or not; margin thickened, flat or slightly revolute, cartilaginous, lobed-dentate (8-12 pairs of shortly mucronate teeth); adaxially grey-green, slightly lustrous, hairless or with some scattered, reddish glandular hairs and stalkless stellate one, mainly along midrib; abaxially greyish or yellowish, glabrescent, with sessile, stellate hairs and golden glandular ones; 8-12 vein pairs prominent both sides, mainly beneath; epidermis remotely bullate and papillose; petiole 2-4 mm, pubescent, glabrescent, reddish brown;

Staminate inflorescences 2-3 cm long or more, with at least 6 flowers; pistillate inflorescences 1.5-4 cm long, with 1-5 flowers;

acorn 1.2-2 cm long, subglobose; mucronate; peduncle 1-6 cm long; enclosed 1/3 to 1/2 by cup; cup half-round, with oval, tomentose, appressed, reddish brown scales; pericarp hairless inside; free cotyledons;

not hardy;

– A. Camus : n° 199; – Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae; – Hybridizes with Q.purulhana ; – For Zavala-Chavez, 2003, Q.segoviensis and Q.matagalpana are varieties of Q.peduncularis.