Quercus brantii, the Brant's oak, is a species of oak native to Western Asia, including Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.[citation needed]
Quercus brantii (covering more than 50% of the Zagros Mountains forest steppe ecoregion) is the most important tree species of the Zagros in Iran.
Iranians use its seed in traditional medicine. Other useful products derived from oaks include fuel wood, charcoal and timber hardwood.
Shrub or tree to 10 m, 0.8 m dbh. Bark greyish brown, rather smooth, becoming deeply furrowed and forming heavy ridges. Crown rounded. Branchlets covered in yellowish brown or grey tomentum. Leaves deciduous, 6โ10(โ15) ร 3โ7(โ9) cm, ovate to oblong, upper surface dull green with sparse stellate hairs or glabrous, lower surface with dense pale yellowish grey stellate hairs, 6โ16 secondary veins on each side of the midrib, margins regularly serrate with 8โ14 teeth on each side of the midrib, apex acute; petiole 0.5โ2 cm long. Infructescence to 15 cm long with one or two cupules.
Cupule hemispheric, 3โ4 ร 2โ3 cm, outside densely pubescent; lower scales rather short and blunt, apical scales with elongated apices that curl into and away from the acorn. Acorn elliptic, with one-third to half of its length enclosed in the cupule, to 1.8โ5 cm long, stylopodium short.