庙台枫 Acer miyabei subsp. miaotaiense

  • Scientific Name: Acer miyabei subsp. miaotaiense (P.C.Tsoong) A.E.Murray
  • Ref: Kalmia 1:6. 1969
  • Synonyms: Acer miaotaiense P.C.Tsoong; A. miaotaiense var. glabrum M.C.Wang; A. yangjuechi W.P.Fang & P.L.Chiu
  • Chinese Common Name: 庙台枫 Miàotái fēng, 庙台槭 Miàotái qì, 羊角槭 yángjiǎo∙qì
  • Family: Sapindaceae
  • Genus: Acer
  • Distribution: Mixed forests; 700-1600 m. SE Gansu, SW Henan, NW Hubei, S Shaanxi, Zhejiang.
  • Note: Holotype of A. yangjuechi was from Lin’an, Zhejiang, and holotype of A. miaotaiense was from Miaotaizi, Liuba, Hanzhong, Shaanxi, south foot of Qinling.
Trees to 25 m tall. Bark brownish gray, rough. Branchlets glabrous; lenticels rounded; winter buds ellipsoid, scales 4. Leaves deciduous; petiole 6-7 cm, glabrous; leaf blade broadly ovate, (4-)7-9 × 5-8 cm, papery, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous, primary veins 3-5, secondary veins 5-7 pairs, base cordate or subcordate, 3- or 5-lobed; lobes ovate, margin undulate, apex acute. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose-paniculate. Flowers yellow-green. Sepals 5, oblong, ca. 4 mm, margin ciliate. Petals 5, obovate-lanceolate, ca. as long as sepals. Stamens 8. Disk orbicular, margin 5-repand-lobed. Infructescence corymbose, glabrous; pedicel 3-6 mm; samara pubescent or rarely glabrous. Nutlets flat, ca. 8 mm in diam.; wing including nutlet 2-2.5 × 0.8-0.9 cm; wings spreading horizontally. Fl. May, fr. Sep. (Flora of China)

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