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Quercus estremadurensis is a species of oak in the family Fagaceae, native to Portugal, western Spain and Morocco. It was first described by Otto Karl Anton Schwarz in 1935. It has also been treated as a subspecies of Quercus robur, Q. robur subsp. estremadurensis. It is placed in section Quercus.
Cited only in a few loci scatterly placed all over the southwestern district of the Iberian peninsula where the species might have survived the increasing process of aridification that took place in the mediterranean basin after the slow retreat of glacial conditions during last glaciation and suffering the effects of a bottleneck phenomenon that clearly did not allow the populations to counteract and recover lost environments. Thus the cited locations for the species only contain one to five individuals but the occurrence is nevertheless not to be overlooked, occurring from Ourense in southern Galicia to northern Morocco in no less than one hundred stands, most of them appearing in the central part of Portugal both near the coast and in the mountainous interior. Over the border with Spain it has been found in Extremadura and west Andalusia, with its easternmost stand in the mountain range of Siruela, Badajoz.
Quercus acatenangensis · Mapleleaf oak · Quercus acherdophylla · Quercus acrodonta · Quercus aculcingensis · Red Wood Evergreen Oak · Quercus acutangula · Quercus acutifolia · Sawtooth oak · Quercus aerea · African Oak · Quercus affinis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Quercus estremadurensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
