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{{Short description|Species of oak tree}}
{{speciesbox
| name = Caucasian oak
| image = Quercus macranthera Tbilisi.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author= Gorener, V. |author2= Carrero, C. |date=2020 |title= ''Quercus macranthera'' |volume=2020 |page= e.T78968730A78968739 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T78968730A78968739.en |access-date=December 26, 2024}}</ref>
| genus = Quercus
| display_parents = 2
| parent = Quercus sect. Quercus
| species = macranthera
| authority = [[Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer|Fisch.]] & [[Carl Anton von Meyer|C.A.Mey.]] ex [[Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker|Hohen.]]<ref name=grin>''Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou'' 11(2):259. 1838. {{GRIN | access-date = July 19, 2010}}</ref>
| synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets = true
|''Quercus bornmuelleriana'' <small>O.Schwarz</small>
|''Quercus syspirensis'' <small>K.Koch</small>}}
| synonyms_ref =
}}

'''''Quercus macranthera''''', commonly called the '''Caucasian oak''', or the '''Persian oak''', is a species of [[deciduous]] [[tree]] native to Western [[Asia]] (northern [[Iran]], [[Turkey]];
and in the [[Caucasus]] in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Armenia]], and [[Azerbaijan]])<ref name=grin/> that is occasionally grown as an [[ornamental tree]] in [[Europe]] growing to {{Convert|30|m|abbr=off}} tall.<ref name=Mitchell>{{ cite book |author=Mitchell, A. |author2=Wilkinson, J. |year=2001 |title=''Trees of Britain and Northern Europe'' |publisher=Collins}}</ref> It is placed in [[Quercus sect. Quercus|section ''Quercus'']].<ref>{{Citation |last1=Denk |first1=Thomas |last2=Grimm |first2=Guido W. |last3=Manos |first3=Paul S. |last4=Deng |first4=Min |last5=Hipp |first5=Andrew L. |date=2017-11-02 |title=Appendix 2.1: An updated infrageneric classification of the oaks |website=figshare |doi=10.6084/m9.figshare.5547622.v1 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_2_1_________An_updated_infrageneric_classification_of_the_oaks/5547622/1 |access-date=2023-02-17 |format=xls |name-list-style=amp |mode=cs1}}</ref>

==Subspecies==
It has two subspecies. One subspecies (''Quercus macranthera'' subsp. ''syspirensis'') is found in the thermophilic lower- and mid-montane shrub communities of Turkey, and the other subspecies (''Quercus macranthera'' subsp. ''macranthera'') is found in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and northern Iran, along the Caspian Sea.

==References==
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[[Category:Quercus|macranthera]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1838]]
[[Category:Flora of Armenia]]
[[Category:Flora of Azerbaijan]]
[[Category:Trees of Western Asia]]
[[Category:Flora of Turkey]]
[[Category:Ornamental trees]]
[[Category:Garden plants of Asia]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker]]

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