Acer cappadocicum var sinicum

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BLD
1.00
BLE
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ZONPALM
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M-HERB
0.00
AZONAL WOODY
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AZONAL NON-WOODY
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AQUATIC
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PROBLEMATIC TAXA
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Comments

Vasilis Teodoridis:
Acer cappadocicum Gleditsch; Schriften Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin. 6: 116. 1785.

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Trees to 20 m tall; andromonoecious. Bark brown or grayish brown. Branchlets reddish green; stout; glabrous and with light stripes (as in A. sect. Macrantha); winter buds subglobose; outside glabrous; margin slightly ciliate. Leaves deciduous; petiole 7-12 cm; slender; glabrous; leaf blade abaxially pale green; adaxially dark green; usually longer than broad; 4-12(-20) x 5-20 cm; papery; adaxially glabrous; primary veins 3-7; reticulate veins conspicuous abaxially; base rounded; 3-; 5-; or 7-lobed; occasionally with leaves small; entire; middle lobe triangular-ovate; apex acuminate; lateral lobes obtuse or triangular-ovate. Flowers yellowish green. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Disk amphistaminal; glabrous. Inflorescence corymbose; ca. 5 cm. Fruiting pedicel 2-2.5 cm. Nutlets oblong; compressed; ± flat; 1-1.5 cm x ca. 6 mm; samara wing including nutlet 2-5 cm x 5-9 mm; wings spreading variously. Fl. Apr; fr. Aug.

Mixed forests; 1500-3000 m. Guizhou; W Hubei; S Shaanxi; Sichuan; Xizang; Yunnan [Bhutan; N India; Kashmir; Nepal; Pakistan; SW Asia; S Europe (S Italy)].