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'''''Quercus macrolepis''''', the '''Valonia oak''',<ref>[http://www.serendipity.gr/Society%20for%20Valonia%20Oak.htm Society for Valonia Oak website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110625172549/http://www.serendipity.gr/Society%20for%20Valonia%20Oak.htm |date=June 25, 2011 }}</ref> is a tree in the family [[Fagaceae]]. It used to be considered a subspecies of [[Quercus ithaburensis]] or a hybrid of [[Quercus libani]]. It appears to be closely related to [[Quercus brantii]] but with cupscales less curved and the cup covering almost all the fruit with sunken apex and shorter petiole.<ref>Jean-Louis Hélardot's website [http://oaks.of.the.world.free.fr/quercus_ithaburensis.htm Oaks of the world], Sept. 2016</ref>
'''''Quercus macrolepis''''', the '''Valonia oak''',<ref>[http://www.serendipity.gr/Society%20for%20Valonia%20Oak.htm Society for Valonia Oak website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110625172549/http://www.serendipity.gr/Society%20for%20Valonia%20Oak.htm |date=June 25, 2011 }}</ref> the old name for Quercus ithaburensis sub. macrolepis.


==Geographical range==
==Geographical range==

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Valonia oak
Example of Q. macrolepis at Tricase, Lecce
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Q. macrolepis
Binomial name
Quercus macrolepis
Synonyms

Quercus ithaburensis
Quercus aegilops

Quercus macrolepis, the Valonia oak,[1] the old name for Quercus ithaburensis sub. macrolepis.

Geographical range

It is found in the Balkans, and in the southern and eastern Mediterranean, including the Greek Islands, Turkey, Israel, and Morocco.

Uses

Quercus ithaburensis ssp. macrolepis

The cups, known as valonia, are used for tanning and dyeing as are the unripe acorns called camata or camatina. The ripe acorns are eaten raw or boiled.[2]

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