Acer fabri

Faber's maple
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae[1]
Genus: Acer
Species: A. fabri
Binomial name
Acer fabri
Hance 1884
Synonyms[2]
  • Acer fargesii (H.J.Veitch) Rehder
  • Acer prainii H.Lév.
  • Acer reticulatum Champ. ex Benth.

Acer fabri (Faber's maple) is a species of evergreen maple shrub native to Vietnam and central to southern China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan).[3][4]

Acer fabri is a shrub rarely more than 1 meter tall. It has with unlobed, lance-shaped leaves, unlike the multilobed leaves found on most maple species. Newly grown leaves and samaras take on a reddish hue.[3][5][5][6]

References

  1. Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008 [and more or less continuously updated since]. mobot.org
  2. The Plant List, Acer fabri Hance
  3. 1 2 University of Florida
  4. The Plant List (2010). "Acer fabri". Retrieved 2013-06-13.
  5. 1 2 Flora of China, Acer fabri Hance, 1884. 罗浮枫 luo fu feng
  6. Hance, Henry Fletcher 1884. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 22(3): 76 description in Latin, commentary in English


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, October 18, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.