Quercus manzanillana Trel.

Mexico (Puebla) ;

not exceeding 3 m tall;

5-8 x 2.5-3.5 cm; deciduous; elliptic or oval-subelliptic; apex rounded or obtuse; base more or less cordate, or rounded; margin entire or remotely wavy; glabrous and often shiny above; beneath with persistant tomentum, dense, rufous; 10 pairs of secondary veins impressed above, prominent abaxially; petiole tomentose less than 5 mm long;

acorn long ovoid, 1.8 cm long, 1.2 cm wide; cup enclosing only the base of the nut; cupscales appressed, pointed, whitish; maturing first year;

– A.Camus : tome 2, p. 643, n° 245; – For today’s Mexican Authors (Susana Valencia-A., 2004), this species described by Trelease is not currently valid ; it may be a hybrid, or a morpholigical variety… For Zavala-Chavez, 2003, it is a variety of Q.deserticola . For POWO it is a true species, in Puebla;