Acer pentaphyllum

Acer pentaphyllum
Acer pentaphyllum in the Quarryhill Botanical Garden
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae[1]
Genus: Acer
Species: A. pentaphyllum
Binomial name
Acer pentaphyllum
Diels 1931
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Acer pentaphyllum (五小叶枫 wu xiao ye feng) is a very rare, endangered maple species endemic to southwestern Sichuan in China, at altitudes of 2300–2900 meters.[2]

Acer pentaphyllum is a deciduous tree that grows to 10 meters in height. Leaves are palmately compound hairless, usually with 5 lobes but sometimes with 4 or 7. Leaflet are 5-8 × 1.5–2 cm, narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate.[2][3]

References

  1. Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008 [and more or less continuously updated since]. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/.
  2. 1 2 Flora of China Acer pentaphyllum Diels, Notizbl. 1931. 五小叶枫 wu xiao ye feng
  3. Diels, Friedrich Ludwig Emil 1931. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 11(103): 212

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