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This is an endangered species.
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Description
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Trees to 8 m tall. Bark dark brown or purple-brown. Branchlets cylindric, those of present year green or purplish green and pubescent, older ones brown and glabrous; winter buds ovoid, scales ciliate along margin. Leaves deciduous; petiole purplish green, 7-8 cm, slender, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially gray, adaxially green, suborbicular-ovate, 9-11 × 7-12 cm, papery, abaxially powdery, pubescent, adaxially glabrous, base subcordate or rounded, shallowly 3-lobed, margin usually entire, rarely with a few serrations. Flowers unknown. Infructescence purplish green, racemose, 15-25 cm, subglabrous. Fruiting pedicel 2.5-4 cm, glabrous. Fruit yellowish brown; nutlets yellowish brown, strongly convex, ca. 1 cm in diam., pubescent; wing falcate, including nutlet 4-4.5 × ca. 1.5 cm, wings spreading at 90° or acutely. Fr. Sep.
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Habitat
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● Mixed forests; 2000-2700 m.
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Synonym
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Acer leipoense subsp. leucotrichum W. P. Fang; A. longipedicellatum C. Y. Wu.
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Acer leipoense: Brief Summary
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Acer leipoense is a species of maple, endemic to southwestern Sichuan in southwestern China. It is an endangered species, growing at altitudes of 2,000–2,700 m.
It is a deciduous small tree growing to 8 meters tall. The leaves are shallowly lobed with three lobes, 9–11 cm long and 7–12 cm broad.
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