Quercus lusitanicaLam.

WFO wfo-0000291789 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Quercus lusitanica, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. a Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197501939
Quercus lusitanica, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. b Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181176602
Quercus lusitanica, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. c Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174102701
Quercus lusitanica, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. d Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150543702
Quercus lusitanica, photographed by Ricardo Lima
fig. e Ricardo Lima, CC0 1.0 / obs. 149163488
Quercus lusitanica, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. f Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130981934
Quercus lusitanica, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. g Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102516294
Quercus lusitanica, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. h Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97238732

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Quercus lusitanica is native: Morocco, Portugal, Spain MoroccoPortugalSpain
Native distribution of Quercus lusitanica, 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
Portugal POR EUROPE
Spain SPA
Morocco MOR AFRICA

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 36 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 aegilopifolia Boiss. ex Endl.
  • Quercus aegylopifolia Boiss. ex A.DC.
  • Quercus baetica (Webb) H.Buek
  • Quercus brachycarpa Guss. ex Parl.
  • Quercus brachycarpa Kotschy ex A.DC.
  • Quercus faginea f. macrobalanus (A.Camus) F.M.Vázquez
  • Quercus faginea subsp. lusitanica (Lam.) Maire
  • Quercus faginea var. macrobalanus Sennen ex A.Camus
  • Quercus fruticosa Brot.
  • Quercus fruticosa subvar. subinclusa Cout.
  • Quercus fruticosa var. pedunculata (Cout.) A.Camus
  • Quercus fruticosa var. prasina Bosc
  • Quercus fruticosa var. subinclusa (Cout.) A.Camus
  • Quercus glauca Bosc
  • Quercus humilis Lam.
  • Quercus humilis f. brachycarpa (Guss.) F.M.Vázquez
  • Quercus humilis f. microcarpa (Guss.) F.M.Vázquez
  • Quercus humilis f. pedunculata Cout.
  • Quercus humilis f. vulgaris Cout.
  • Quercus humilis var. subinclusa Cout.
  • Quercus lusitanica f. obtusidens C.Vicioso
  • Quercus lusitanica f. subinclusa (Cout.) F.M.Vázquez
  • Quercus lusitanica subsp. valentina (Cav.) O.Schwarz
  • Quercus lusitanica var. humilis (Lam.) Elwes & A.Henry

and 12 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.

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