Local Names
Armenia: 
(kaghni vratsakan); Azerbaijan: Gürcü pаlıdı; Georgia: 
– kartuli mukha; Quercus spp.: 
– rko (Lower imeretian, Acharian), 
– ch’k’oni (Chanetian), 
– ch’q’oni (Megrelian), 
– jira (Svanetian), 
– jihra (Svanetian) (Makashvili 1991); English: Iberian oak.
Botany and Ecology
Quercus iberica Steven ex M. Bieb.
A tree of medium size, with reddish-brown branchlets and shoots. Buds with long-persistent stipules, ovoid, sometimes globose, acuminate, to 0.7 cm long. Petioles 1–3 cm long. Leaves rather firm, subcoriaceous, retained in withered condition until the following spring, 7-14- (20) cm long, 3-8- (10) cm wide, obovate or narrower and elongate, terminal lobe short, obtuse, base somewhat cuneate, rarely subcordate, lateral lobes 8–11 pairs, short, lustrous green above, paler, glabrous or finely grey-pubescent below, more densely so and with scattered hairs along the veins, veins prominent below, commonly brownish, lateral veins as many as lobes, straight or slightly...
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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2016). Quercus iberica Steven ex M. Bieb. Fagaceae. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50009-6_54-1
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