Quercus brantii

{{Short description|Species of oak tree}}

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| image = Persian_oak-Quercus_brantii_2.JPG

| image2 = Quercus Brantii - Kurdistan Oak (with Ruler).JPG

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{Cite iucn |title=Quercus brantii |author=Stephan, J. |name-list-style=amp |page= e.T194070A2296130 |date=2018 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T194070A2296130.en |access-date=20 January 2024}}

| genus = Quercus

| display_parents = 2

| parent = Quercus sect. Cerris

| species = brantii

| authority = Lindl.{{cite web | url = http://oaks.of.the.world.free.fr/quercus_brantii.htm | title = Oaks of the World, Quercus brantii | access-date = 10 April 2014}}

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Quercus brantii Lindl.. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295874-1 |access-date=2023-02-21 }}

| synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets = true

|Quercus aegilops subsp. brantii (Lindl.) A.Camus

|Quercus baneica Djav.-Khoie, contrary to Art. 30.5

|Quercus brantii subsp. oophora (Kotschy) O.Schwarz

|Quercus oophora Kotschy

|Quercus squamulosa Djav.-Khoie, contrary to Art. 30.5

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Quercus brantii, Brant's oak,{{PLANTS|id=QUBR2|taxon=Quercus brantii|access-date=30 July 2015}} is a species of oak native to Western Asia, mainly in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.{{Cite web |title=Quercus brantii Lindl. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295874-1 |access-date=2022-09-10 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/194070/2296130|website=iucnredlist.org|title=Quercus brantii (Brant Oak)|accessdate=2022-09-20}}

Quercus brantii (covering more than 50% of the Zagros Mountains forest steppe ecoregion) is the most important tree species of the Zagros in Iran.{{cite web |url=http://research.guilan.ac.ir/cjes/.papers/25210.pdf |title=Plant species in Oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) understory and their relationship with physical and chemical propertiesof soil in different altitude classes in the Arghvan valley protected area, Iran |last1=M. Heydari |last2=H. Poorbabaei |last3=T. Rostami |last4=M. Begim Faghir |last5=A. Salehi |last6=R. Ostad Hashmei |year=2013 |publisher=Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2013, Vol. 11 No.1, pp. 97~110 |access-date=10 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403163132/http://research.guilan.ac.ir/cjes/.papers/25210.pdf |archive-date=3 April 2015 }}

Iranians use its seed in traditional medicine. Other useful products derived from oaks include fuel wood, charcoal and timber hardwood.{{cite journal |title=Morphological and molecular diversity among populations of Quercus brantii Lindl. in western forest of Iran |journal = Plant Biosystems|volume = 145|issue = 2|pages = 452–460|last1=B. Shiran |last2=S. Mashayekhi |last3=H. Jahanbazi |last4=A. Soltani |last5=P. Bruschi |year=2011 |doi=10.1080/11263504.2011.558718 | bibcode=2011PBios.145..452S |s2cid = 86778676}}