Quercus pubescens

Ssp crispata: Tüylü pelit; Ssp pubescens: Tüylü meşe

Deciduous small tree to 10 m, round-topped; young shoots densely pubescent ; buds c. 5 mm, reddish-brown, pubescent. Leaves most variable but generally oblong-obovate, c. 4.5-8.5 x 2.5-5 cm, greyish-green above, brownish-grey beneath, asymmetrically subcordate or rounded, thick-textured, with 3-6 strongly undulate forwardly-pointing irregular acute lobes with ± revolute margins; primary veins 4-8, intercalary veins present; indumentum densely to thinly stellate-tomentose beneath, with many scattered minute stellate hairs above; petiole 5-10 mm. Peduncle absent. Cupule shallow, to 15 mm diam.; scales adpressed, lanceolate, pubescent, brownish-grey; acorn 2/3 exserted. Fr. 9-10. Usually associated with Pinus nigra, Quercus cerris, Fagus, Castanea, Pyrus elaeagnifolia, Cistus laurifolius, Paliurus spinachristi in anthropogenic steppe or semi-steppe; rarely in macchie, nr s.l-1700 m.

W., C. & S. Europe, Crimea.