Acer pictum

Acer pictum, commonly known as yellow-paint maple,^[4] is an Asian species of maple. It widespread across much of China as well as Korea, Japan, Mongolia, and eastern Russia.^[5] Its natural habitat is in temperate forests.

Acer pictum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Sapindaceae
Genus:	Acer
Section:	Acer sect. Platanoidea
Species:	A. pictum
Binomial name
Acer pictum Thunb. 1784
Synonyms[2]
List Acer ambiguum Dippel 1892 not Heer 1878[3] Acer dippelii Schwer. Acer latilobum (Koidz.) Koidz. Acer marmoratum (G.Nicholson) H.Hara Acer mayrii Schwer. Acer mono Maxim. Acer okamotoanum Nakai Kalopanax pictus (Thunb.) Nakai

Acer pictum is a deciduous tree up to 20 meters tall, with gray bark. Leaves are non-compound, thin, up to 12 cm wide and 12 cm across, toothless, with 3, 5, 7, or 9 lobes.^[5]

Taxonomy

Acer pictum is taxonomically complex species, showing morphological variation that corresponds to different geographic regions. Treatments of this variation have ranged from recognizing entities at the species level, to uniting them all under an undivided A. pictum. Further taxonomic study of this group is needed.^[5][6] Five subspecies are provisionally recognized in the Flora of China.^[5] These are:

• Acer pictum subsp. macropterum - China
• Acer pictum subsp. mono - China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and east Russia
• Acer pictum subsp. pictum - Japan and Korea
• Acer pictum subsp. pubigerum - China
• Acer pictum subsp. tricuspis - China

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  A sapling of Acer pictum in the wild