梓叶枫 zi ye feng

Basionym: Acer catalpifolium Rehder in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 1: 87. 1911; A. cappadocicum subsp. catalpifolium (Rehder) A. E. Murray.

Leaf blade ovate or ovate-oblong, 8-20 × 5-9 cm, abaxially glabrous except with tufts of hairs at bases of veins, adaxially glabrous, base rounded or nearly so, undivided with margin entire or occasionally with undeveloped lateral lobes below middle, apex acuminate. Fruit yellowish, glabrous; fruiting pedicel 2-3 mm; nutlets ovoid, compressed; wing including nutlet 5-5.5 × ca. 1.4 cm, wings spreading at erect, obtuse, or acute angles. Fl. Apr, fr. Aug-Oct.

● Mixed forests, valleys; 500-2000 m. NE Guangxi, N Guizhou, Sichuan.