Quercus laurinaBonpl.

WFO wfo-0000291646 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 laurina, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2013-12-28 / obs. 1309863
Quercus laurina, photographed by Norma Piedra
fig. b Norma Piedra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204510645
Quercus laurina, photographed by Norma Piedra
fig. c Norma Piedra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204510720
Quercus laurina, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1309865
Quercus laurina, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1309866
Quercus laurina, photographed by Norma Piedra
fig. f Norma Piedra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204510620
Quercus laurina, photographed by Norma Piedra
fig. g Norma Piedra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204510669
Quercus laurina, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. h Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1309864

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Quercus laurina is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestEl SalvadorGuatemalaHonduras
Native distribution of Quercus laurina, 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
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
El Salvador ELS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON

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 34 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.

  • Dryopsila laurina (Bonpl.) Raf.
  • Quercus ambivenulosa Trel.
  • Quercus barbinervis Benth.
  • Quercus bourgaei Oerst. ex Hemsl.
  • Quercus bourgaei var. ilicifolia Trel.
  • Quercus caeruleocarpa Trel.
  • Quercus castanea var. tridens (Humb. & Bonpl.) A.DC.
  • Quercus chrysophylla Bonpl.
  • Quercus esesmilensis J.M.Tucker & C.H.Mull.
  • Quercus lanceolata Bonpl.
  • Quercus lanceolata var. undulatodentata A.DC.
  • Quercus laurina Liebm. ex A.DC.
  • Quercus laurina var. barbinervis (Benth.) Wenz.
  • Quercus laurina var. major (A.DC.) Wenz.
  • Quercus laurina var. ocoteifolia (Liebm.) Wenz.
  • Quercus laurina var. podocarpa (A.DC.) Wenz.
  • Quercus major (A.DC.) Trel.
  • Quercus malinaltepecana Trel.
  • Quercus nitens var. major A.DC.
  • Quercus nitens var. ocoteifolia (Liebm.) A.DC.
  • Quercus nitens var. podocarpa A.DC.
  • Quercus ocoteaefolia f. confusa Trel.
  • Quercus ocoteifolia f. podocarpa Trel.
  • Quercus ocoteifolia var. typica A.Camus

and 10 more.

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. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.