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1. Acer sect. Platanoidea Pax, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 6: 327. 1885.

桐状枫组 tong zhuang feng zu

Trees, andromonoecious. Branchlets gray or brownish yellow, green or purple-green and striped; bud with 5-8 pairs of imbricate scales. Leaves simple, usually 3- or 5-lobed or unlobed, lobes usually entire, sometimes undulate, rarely toothed; petioles with white latex. Infructescence terminal, corymbose. Sepals and petals 5. Stamens (5-)8. Disk amphistaminal. Nutlets usually compressed-flat.

Fifteen species: China, Europe, Japan, Russia; 12 species (eight endemic) in China.


1 Leaf blade 3-lobed, margin undulate; lobes obtuse.   1 A. miaotaiense
+ Leaf blade 3-, 5-, or 7-lobed, or unlobed, margin entire or rarely dentate; middle lobes usually acute or acuminate   (2)
       
2 (1) Shoots gray or brownish yellow   (3)
+ Shoots green or purple-green   (6)
       
3 (2) Leaf blade 4-6 × 3-6 cm, usually 3-lobed, rarely undivided, suborbicular or ovate, base rounded or subcordate, margin entire or slightly sinuate, apex obtuse or acute, abaxially glabrous except slightly pubescent at vein axil.   9 A. tenellum
+ Leaf blade 7-13 × 5-20 cm, usually 3- or 7-lobed, base truncate or obtuse, apex acuminate, abaxially densely pubescent or glabrous   (4)
       
4 (3) Leaves abaxially densely pubescent, usually 3-lobed, or unlobed when young.   10 A. fulvescens
+ Leaves abaxially glabrous, usually 5-lobed, sometimes 3- or 7-lobed   (5)
       
5 (4) Nutlets convex and thick; leaf base usually truncate, lobes sometimes dentate.   11 A. truncatum
+ Nutlets flat and thin; leaf base rounded or cordate, lobes entire.   12 A. pictum
       
6 (2) Nutlets slightly convex   (7)
+ Nutlets flat, thin   (9)
       
7 (6) Leaf blade 3- or 5-lobed.   6 A. shenkanense
+ Leaf blade 5- or 7-lobed   (8)
       
8 (7) Wing including nutlet 2-5 cm × 5-9 mm; leaves abaxially glabrous or slightly pubescent, base truncate or cordate.   7 A. cappadocicum
+ Wing including nutlet 3.5-4 cm × ca. 12 mm; leaves abaxially densely yellow-gray tomentose, base rounded.   8 A. tibetense
       
9 (6) Leaves glabrous   (10)
+ Leaves abaxially pubescent   (11)
       
10 (9) Leaf blade unlobed or 3-lobed, 4-11 × 2.5-4(-8) cm, apex caudate-acuminate; nutlet including wing ca. 2.5 cm.   2 A. chunii
+ Leaf blade 3- or 5-lobed, rarely unlobed, 10-20 × 4-26 cm, apex usually obtuse or acute; nutlet including wing (2.5-)3-4.5 cm.   3 A. amplum
       
11 (9) Leaf blade usually 3-lobed or unlobed when young, base rounded or slightly cordate; nutlets conspicuously veined.   4 A. longipes
+ Leaf blade usually 5- or 7-lobed, base truncate or cordate; nutlets not veined.   5 A. acutum

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