Malus trilobata Malus trilobata Malus trilobata, the Lebanese wild apple, erect crab apple or three-lobed apple tree, is a species in the family Rosaceae in the genus "Malus". Some authorities place it in the segregate genus "Eriolobus", as "Eriolobus trilobatus". The distribution of "Malus trilobata" in Asia includes West and South Anatolia, Syria, Lebanon and North Israel, while in Europe its distribution encompasses the east section of Greek Thrace (Evros Prefecture) and southeastern Bulgaria. Surviving trees in Lebanon can be found in the Mount Lebanon Range, at altitudes of . The last remaining forest community of the endemic wild apple in the
Egyptian fruit bat Egyptian fruit bat The Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette ("Rousettus aegyptiacus") is a species of Old World fruit bat. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire originally gave this species the specific name of "egyptiacus" in 1810, but he later revised it to "ægyptiacus". In 1992, G. B. Corbet and J. E. Hill argued that this revision was invalid and changed the name back to "egyptiacus"; the 1999 "Mammalian Species" review used "egyptiacus" as well. However, Geoffroy's revision was argued to be valid in 2001 by D. Kock. He notes that the second spelling was "accepted almost universally by the scientific community", including