Quercus vicentensis Trel.

Central America (El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras, SE Mexico); 1200-1900 m;

tall tree;

7-10 (-15) x 2-3.5 (-6) cm; evergreen; moderately thick and hard; oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate; apex acute, sometimes more or less rounded; base round or cuneate; margin flat or weakly revolute, entire or coarsely dentate in the apical half; adaxially dull, with sparse glandular hairs becoming glabrous except along midrib near base; abaxially waxy-glaucous, with a rather persistent tawny tomentum; 12-15 pairs of irregular secondary veins, forked and anastomosing alond margin, somewhat impressed above, very prominent beneath; petiole 5 mm long, with persistent stellate pubescence or glabrescent;

male catkins 3-4 cm long, with puberulent rachis low-flowered; pistillate inflorescences 1.5-2 cm long, glandular pubescent, with 2-3 flowers;

– Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae; – Threatened (IUCN Red List Category : VU). –Warning : Q.coma y aguana Trel. = Q.elliptica !