Small-flowered maple

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Small-flowered maple
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Systematics
Eurosiden II
Order : Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family : Soap tree family (Sapindaceae)
Subfamily : Horse chestnut family (Hippocastanoideae)
Genre : Maples ( Acer )
Type : Small-flowered maple
Scientific name
Acer micranthum
Siebold & Zucc.

The small-flowered maple ( Acer micranthum ) is a shrub or small tree belonging to the maple genus in the soap tree family (Sapindaceae). The natural range is in Japan.

description

The small-flowered maple is an 8 meter high, heavily branched shrub or tree with purpledish to green, slightly white striped bark and thin, bare and reddish shoots. The leaves are deep five-lobed, rarely seven-lobed with long pointed lobes and a serrated edge. Both sides of the leaf are bare, but the underside may have beards. The petiole is 2 to 4 inches long. The leaves turn red to orange-yellow in autumn, rarely golden-yellow. The yellowish green, very small flowers are in 3 to 5 centimeters long, terminal racemes . They bloom in May. The fruits are 1 to 2 inches long. The wing is spread horizontally or at an obtuse angle.

Distribution and ecology

The distribution area is on the Japanese islands of Honshū , Kyushu and Shikoku . The species grows in cool, moist forests, on fresh to moist, well-drained, moderately nutrient-rich, acidic to neutral, sandy or gravelly humus soils in sunny to light-shady locations. The species is usually frost hardy.

Systematics and research history

The Small-maple ( Acer micranthum ) is a kind of the genus of maple ( Acer ) in the family of soap tree plants (Sapindaceae). There he is assigned to the Macrantha section . It was first described in 1845 by Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini in the treatises of the Mathematical-Physical Class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Munich .

use

The species is rarely used as an ornamental wood because of its impressive autumn colors .

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literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , pp. 72-73.

Individual evidence

  1. German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 72.
  2. a b c Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , pp. 72–73.
  3. a b Acer micranthum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 29, 2011 .

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