Marcescent tree, monoecious, up to 30 m in height, longly ovate in appearance or \u00b1 rounded, regular in shape. Trunk \u00b1 straight, up to 1.5 m in diameter, with greyish-brown bark, with deep longitudinal and transverse fissures in older trunks. Branches extended-erect. Young branchlets brown, covered with felted hairs at first and turning glabrescent later on as the hairs disappear later on,. Leaves (5-20 \u00d7 2.5-11 cm), alternate, marcescent, slightly coriaceous, ovate, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, with thick subacute teeth along the margin; when young tomentose on both sides, with dense indumentum of stellate hairs that falls off tangled; adult leaves green, \u00b1 dark on the upper side, glabrescent, lighter and glaucous on the underside, totally glabrous except for some remaining hairs along the major veins. Petiole 8-30 mm, glabrescent. Male flowers numerous, in yellow-green catkins, pendant (4-8 cm). Female flowers solitary in short spikes, upright. Fruit (the corn) a longly ovoid achene (2-3 \u00d7 1.2-1.8 cm), with chestnut-yellow nut and cupule with ovate-triangular scales, tomentose, imbricated: lower scales applied and somewhat gibbous; upper scales with \u00b1 free apices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12642","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n