EcoFlora - Acer

Acer
Family: Sapindaceae Max Licher	VPAP Gleason & Cronquist Resources JANAS 29(1) PLANTS: Shrubs, or trees to ca. 12 m high (in ours), monoecious or dioecious. LEAVES: palmately lobed or trifoliolate (in ours), membranous or submembranous. INFLORESCENCE: corymbose, racemose, or umbelliform. FLOWERS: (in ours) inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, wind-pollinated, (elsewhere, in some spp., conspicuous, insect-pollinated); ovary compressed, with two lateral lobes that develop into wings. FRUIT: two-winged, at maturity separating into two, single-winged, samaras and a persistent carpophore. REFERENCES: Landrum, Leslie R. 1995. Aceraceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. 29(1): 2, 2-3. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Lvs simple and usually palmately veined and lobed, or less often pinnately or palmately compound with few lfls; fr normally a double samara with winged mericarps, the seed-bearing base of the mericarp thickened and not winged. (Argentacer, Negundo, Rufacer, Saccharodendron) 110, cosmop. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: Utah State University - Logan Campus Acer campestre Map not Available Acer circinatum Map not Available Acer ginnala Map not Available Acer glabrum Map not Available Acer grandidentatum Map not Available Acer griseum Map not Available Acer macrophyllum Map not Available Acer mandshuricum Map not Available Acer negundo Map not Available Acer nigrum Map not Available Acer palmatum Map not Available Acer platanoides Map not Available Acer pseudoplatanus Map not Available Acer saccharinum Map not Available Acer saccharum Map not Available Acer tataricum Map not Available Acer truncatum Map not Available