Quercus brantiiLindl.

Brant's oak

WFO wfo-0000289835 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Quercus brantii, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-05-31 / obs. 102775113
Quercus brantii, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. b Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102856400
Quercus brantii, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. c Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102852201
Quercus brantii, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. d Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102610614
Quercus brantii, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. e Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74229558
Quercus brantii, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. f Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74230636
Quercus brantii, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. g Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74302629
Quercus brantii, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. h Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102852223

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Quercus brantii is native: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Transcaucasus, Türkiye IranIraqLebanon-SyriaTranscaucasusTürkiye
Native distribution of Quercus brantii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Quercus aegilops subsp. brantii (Lindl.) A.Camus
  • Quercus aegilops subsp. persica (Jaub. & Spach) Blakelock
  • Quercus baneica Djav.-Khoie
  • Quercus brantii subsp. oophora (Kotschy) O.Schwarz
  • Quercus brantii subsp. persica (Jaub. & Spach) O.Schwarz
  • Quercus brantii var. belangeri (A.DC.) Zohary
  • Quercus brantii var. marasiensis Zohary
  • Quercus brantii var. minuta Zohary
  • Quercus brantii var. oophora (Kotschy) Zohary
  • Quercus brantii var. persica (Jaub. & Spach) Zohary
  • Quercus brantii var. stenolepis Zohary
  • Quercus globularis Djav.-Khoie
  • Quercus oophora Kotschy
  • Quercus persica var. belangeri A.DC.
  • Quercus persica var. longicupulata Djav.-Khoie
  • Quercus persica var. ovoidea Djav.-Khoie
  • Quercus persica var. retrosquamata Djav.-Khoie
  • Quercus saii Djav.-Khoie
  • Quercus squamulosa Djav.-Khoie

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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