Quercus brantii Lindl. 1840 Bot. Reg. 26: t. 41 1840

East Turkey (Zagros Mounts); W and S Iran; N Iraq; Desert of Syria; 300 to 1900 m;

reaches 10 m, with trunk to 0.8 m in diametre; often smaller; rounded crown;

6-12 cm x 4-8, leathery, deciduous; oval or oblong oval; apex acute; base rounded or cordate; greyish green, scarcely stellate pubescent above; yellowish, glandular tomentum beneath, with stellate and glandular hairs, along with a few simple uniseriate trichomes; 8-14 pairs of regular teeth with long cusps (almost as long as the teeth); 8-16 vein pairs ending in the teeth; intercalary veins absent; petiole 1-2 cm long;

male inflorescence 4-5 cm long; pistillate inflorescence 15 cm long, with 1 or 2 cups; male flowers with 4-5 stamens;

acorn to 5 cm long, with basal scar strongly convex, often depressed at apex; cupule subsessile, halfround or conical, 4 cm in diameter, 2-3 cm high, with long (5-7 mm), pubescent, narrow scales, upper ones recurved; rippening second year; edible;

– Sub-genus Cerris, section Cerris, subsection Aegilops (with ithaburensis and macrolepis ); – Closely related to Q. macrolepis, from which it differs mainly in having leaves with a regular serration; – Hybrids with Q.libani (= Q.x oophora Kotschy 1862, = Q.brantii subsp oophora (Kotschy) O.Schwarz 1936), and with Q. infectoria (= Q.x squamulosa Djavanchir 1977).