Quercus magnoliifolia Née magnosquamata Djav.-Khoie

Mexico (Michoacan, Oaxaca, Colima, Guerrero, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Nayarit, Sinaloa) ; 1600-2900 m ;

5-15 m tall, trunk to 15-50 cm in diameter;

8-28 x 5-18 cm; deciduous; oboval or broadly elliptic; thin, flat, pliable; apex rounded or obtuse ; base variable ; margin thick, slightly rolled under, crenate-dentate with 8-14 pairs of short mucronate teeth; lustrous green above, hairless except stellate trichomes and glandular hairs at the base of midrib, with veins impressed; minutely reticulate beneath, with yellow tomentum made of glandular hairs and short, sessile, stellate ones, with veins prominent; 11-20 rather straight vein pairs; épidermis papillose and bullate; petiole 0.3-1 cm long, dark red, slightly pubescent;

in February; staminate catkins several-flowered; pistillate flowers 1 to 3 or more on a 5-15 mm long peduncle;

acorn 0.8-1.7 cm long, ovoid; 2/3 enclosed by cup; cup 1.4-2 cm in diameter, with large, narrow tomentose scales; maturing in 1 year in June-July; nut sweet;

not hardy; prefers dry places;

– A. Camus : tome 2, p. 625, n° 237 ; – Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Subsection Leucomexicanae; – Also spelled “ magnoliaefolia “ ;