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List of Acer species

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Reference excerpt

There are nearly 160 species in the genus Acer. Species with evergreen foliage are tagged #. Species and sections that are extinct are tagged with †.

Species A–Z The following is a list of accepted species ordered alphabetically. Living species are from the Plants of the World Online database, which is maintained by Kew Botanical Garden in London, with additions of extinct species from paleobotanical literature.

U–Z

Species listed by section and series

Infrageneric classification of extant species follows The Maple Society (E. Davis), 2021.

Section Acer

Section Arguta

Acer acuminatum Wall. ex D.Don Acer argutum Maxim. – deep-veined maple Acer barbinerve Maxim. – bearded maple Acer stachyophyllum Hiern – birch-leaved maple

Section Ginnala

Acer ginnala Maxim. – Amur maple Acer tataricum L. – Tatar maple

Section Glabra

Series Glabra Acer glabrum Torr. – Douglas maple, Rocky Mountain maple, Greene's maple, New Mexico maple, Torrey maple

Section Indivisa

Series Indivisa Acer carpinifolium Siebold & Zucc. – hornbeam maple

Section Lithocarpa

Series Lithocarpa Acer diabolicum Blume ex Koch – horned maple Acer kungshanense W. P. Fang & C. Y. Chang Acer leipoense Fang & Soong Acer lungshengense W. P. Fang & L. C. Hu Acer sinopurpurascens Cheng Acer sterculiaceum Wall. – Franchet’s maple, Himalayan maple Acer thomsonii Miquel Acer tsinglingense W. P. Fang & C. C. Hsieh

Section Macrantha

Section Macrophylla

Acer macrophyllum Pursh – Oregon maple, bigleaf maple

Section Negundo

Series Negundo Acer negundo L. – box elder, boxelder maple, Manitoba maple Series Cissifolia Acer cissifolium (Siebold & Zucc.) Koch Acer henryi Pax

Section Palmata

Series Palmata Acer amoenum (Carriere) Hara Acer anhweiense Fang & Fang f. Acer calcaratum Gagnep. Acer campbellii Hook.f. & Thomson ex Hiern – Campbell's maple Acer chingii Hu Acer circinatum Pursh – vine maple Acer confertifolium Merril & Metcalf Acer duplicatoserratum Hayata Acer elegantulum Fang & Chiu Acer erianthum Schwer. Acer fenzelianum Hand.-Mazz. – Fenzl's maple Acer flabellatum Rehder Acer heptaphlebium Gagnepain Acer japonicum Thunb. – downy Japanese maple Acer kuomeii Fang & Fang f. Acer kweilinense Fang & Fang f. Acer miaoshanicum Fang Acer oliverianum Pax – Oliver's maple Acer osmastonii Gamble Acer palmatum Thunb. – Japanese maple Acer pauciflorum Fang Acer pseudosieboldianum (Pax) Komarov - Korean maple Acer pseudowilsonii Y.S.Chen Acer pubinerve Rehder Acer pubipalmatum Fang Acer robustum Pax Acer serrulatum Hayata Acer shirasawanum Koidz. – Shirasawa's maple Acer sieboldianum Miq. – Siebold's maple Acer sinense Pax – Campbell's maple Acer takesimense Nakai Acer tenuifolium (Koidzumi) Koidzumi Acer tonkinense Lecompte Acer tutcheri Duthie Acer wangchii Fang Acer wilsonii Rehder – Wilson's maple Series Penninervia Acer cordatum Pax Acer crassum Chu & Cheng Acer erythranthum Gagnep. Acer fabri Hance Acer hilaense Hu & Cheng Acer kwangnanense Hu & Cheng Acer laevigatum Hu & Cheng – # smoothbark maple Acer oligocarpum Acer pubipetiolatum Hu & W.C.Cheng Acer sino-oblongum Metcalf Acer wangchii Fang

Section Parviflora

Series Distyla Acer distylum Siebold & Zucc. – lime-leaved maple Series Parviflora Acer nipponicum Hara – Nippon maple

Section Pentaphylla

Series Pentaphylla Acer pentaphyllum Diels Series Trifida (syn Section integrifolia) Acer albopurpurascens Hayata Acer buergerianum Miq. – trident maple Acer chiangdaoense Santisuk Acer coriaceifolium Lév. - # leatherleaf maple Acer gracilifolium Fang & Fu Acer lucidum Metcalf Acer oblongum Wall. ex DC. - # Acer paihengii Fang Acer paxii Franch. - # Acer poliophyllum Fang & Wu Acer shihweii Chun & Fang Acer sycopseoides Chun Acer wangchii Fang Acer yinkunii Fang Acer yui Fang

Section Platanoidea

Series Platanoidea Acer acutum Fang Acer amplum Rehder – broad maple Acer campestre L. – field maple Acer cappadocicum Gled. – Cappadocian maple Acer chunii Fang Acer divergens Koch ex Pax Acer fulvescens Rehder in Sargent Acer lobelii Ten. – Lobel's maple Acer longipes Franch. ex Rehder Acer miaotaiense P.C.Tsoong Acer miyabei Maxim. – Miyabe's maple Acer okamotoanum Nakai Acer pictum Thunberg Acer platanoides L. – Norway maple Acer shenkanense Fang ex Fu Acer tenellum Pax Acer tibetense Fang Acer truncatum Bunge – Shandong maple Acer turkestanicum Pax in Engler

Section Pubescentia

Series Pubescentia Acer pentapomicum Stewart ex Brandis Acer pilosum Maximowicz

Section Rubra

Acer laurinum Hassk. - # Acer pycnanthum K.Koch Acer rubrum L. – red maple Acer saccharinum L. – silver maple

Section Spicata

Acer caudatum Wall. – tail-leaf maple Acer spicatum Lamarck – mountain maple Acer ukurunduense Trautvetter & Meyer

Section †Spitza

†Acer spitzi Wolfe & Tanai (Early Eocene, Washington state)

Section Trifoliata

Series Emeiensia Acer sutchuenense Franch. Series Grisea Acer griseum (Franch.) Pax – paperbark maple Acer maximowiczianum Miq. – Nikko maple Acer triflorum Komarov – three-flowered maple Series Mandshurica Acer mandshuricum Maxim. – Manchurian maple

Section Wardiana

Acer wardii W.W.Smith

Hybrids

Acer × bormuelleri Borbas (A. monspessulanum × A. campestre or A. opalus) Acer × boscii Spach (A. monspessulanum × A. tataricum or A. pensylvanicum × A. tataricum, possibly A. tataricum × A. campestre) Acer × conspicuum van Gelderen & Otterdoom (A. davidii × A. pensylvanicum) Acer × coriaceum Bosc ex Tausch (A. monspessulanum × A. opalus ssp. obtusatum) Acer × dieckii van Gelderen & Otterdoom See A. platanoides Acer × freemanii Murray (A. rubrum × A. saccharinum) Acer × hillieri Lancaster (A. miyabei × A. cappadocicum 'Aureum') Acer × martinii Jordan (A. monspessulanum × A. opalus) Acer × pseudo-heldreichii Fukarek & Celjo (A. pseudoplatanus × A. heldreichii) Acer × ramosum Jordan (A. monspessulanum × A. opalus) Acer × schwerinii Pax (uncertain, maybe A. crataegifolium × A. rufinerve) Acer × zoeschense Pax (A. campestre × either A. cappadocicum or A. lobelii)

Fossil sections A number of fossil sections were suggested by paleobotanists Jack Wolfe and Toshimasa Tanai in their 1987 revision of the North American fossil Acer record.

Macrantha Group

Section Arguta †Acer ivanofense Wolfe & Tanai (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, Meshik Volcanics, Alaska)

Section Cissifolia †Acer lincolnense Wolfe & Tanai (late Eocene, Beaver Creek Flora, Montana)

Section Eriocarpa

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