Quercus alpescens Trel.

Mexico (Hidalgo)

1 to 1.5 m

3-4 cm long, 1-2 cm wide; evergreen; broadly elliptic; both ends rounded; dark green, bright, subglabrous above; densely brownish tomentose below; margin crispate and revolute, wavy, entire or toothed; about 6 veins pairs, remotely curved, impressed adaxially, strongly raised beneath; petiole tomentose, 2-5 mm long;

acorn oblong, subsessil, 1-1.5 cm long with hairy and mucronate apex; enclosed for 1/3 of length in 1 cm wide cup; scales of the cup slender, appressed, pointed; annual maturation;

not quite hardy;

– A. Camus : n° 243 – Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus – For Zavala-Chavez, 2003, it is a variety of Q.repanda.