macrolepis, the Valonia oak,[2] is a subspecies of Quercus ithaburensis, a member of the beech family, Fagaceae.

[3] The Valonia oak was first described as the species Quercus macrolepis by Carl Friedrich Kotschy in 1860.

macrolepis is native from south-east Italy, through the Balkans (Albania, Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia) and Greece, including Crete and the East Aegean Islands), to the eastern Mediterranean (Turkey, Lebanon and Syria.

It is absent from the Palestine region,[1] where only the subspecies ithaburensis occurs.

[4] The cups, known as valonia, are used for tanning and dyeing as are the unripe acorns called camata or camatina.