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Quercus canariensis (Algerian Oak)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Quercus canariensis, the Algerian oak or Mirbeck's oak is an oak in the section Quercus sect. Mesobalanus, native to southern Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco; despite the scientific name, it does not occur naturally today in the Canary Islands, though it may have in the past.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
LOS ALCORNOCALES 414561 Spain  

Predators

Agrilus angustulus[2]
Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Oak Spangle Gall Wasp)[2]
Sitta ledanti (Algerian Nuthatch)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 3BirdLife International (2012) Species factsheet: Sitta ledanti. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 09/09/2012.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0