Quercus pyrenaicaWilld.

WFO wfo-0000292734 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Quercus pyrenaica, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. a Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-16 / obs. 164046370
Quercus pyrenaica, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. b Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125731072
Quercus pyrenaica, photographed by Cristina Villaverde
fig. c Cristina Villaverde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105276843
Quercus pyrenaica, photographed by Cristina Villaverde
fig. d Cristina Villaverde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102766010
Quercus pyrenaica, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. e Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102639476
Quercus pyrenaica, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. f Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102631276
Quercus pyrenaica, photographed by Paulo Martins
fig. g Paulo Martins, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 100415091
Quercus pyrenaica, photographed by Cristina Villaverde
fig. h Cristina Villaverde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93742292

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Quercus pyrenaica is native: Morocco, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain MoroccoFranceItalyPortugalSpain
Native distribution of Quercus pyrenaica, 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
France FRA EUROPE
Italy ITA
Portugal POR
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 29 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 aurin Bosc
  • Quercus brossa Bosc
  • Quercus camata hort. ex Petz. & G.Kirchn.
  • Quercus cenomanensis Desp. ex Endl.
  • Quercus cerris var. tomentosa DC.
  • Quercus humilis DC.
  • Quercus lezermiana Bosc ex Poir.
  • Quercus pyrenaica f. brachyloba O.Schwarz
  • Quercus pyrenaica f. expansa (C.Vicioso) F.M.Vázquez
  • Quercus pyrenaica f. laciniata O.Schwarz
  • Quercus pyrenaica f. normalis (Rouy) F.M.Vázquez
  • Quercus pyrenaica f. pinnatifida O.Schwarz
  • Quercus pyrenaica f. pinnatipartita C.Vicioso
  • Quercus pyrenaica f. sphaerocarpa (Rouy) F.M.Vázquez
  • Quercus pyrenaica f. stenocarpa (Rouy) F.M.Vázquez
  • Quercus pyrenaica var. expansa C.Vicioso
  • Quercus stolonifera Lapeyr.
  • Quercus tauza Desf.
  • Quercus tauzin Pers.
  • Quercus tauzini Bubani
  • Quercus toza Griseb.
  • Quercus toza F.Gillet ex Bosc
  • Quercus toza var. humilis Nyman
  • Quercus toza var. normalis Rouy

and 5 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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