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Taxon: Acer macrophyllum Pursh

Genus: Acer section: Lithocarpa series: Macrophylla
Family: Sapindaceae subfamily: Hippocastanoideae. Also placed in: Aceraceae
Nomen number: 1161
Place of publication: Fl. Amer. sept. 1:267. 1813-1814
Name verified on: 06-Apr-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 25-Apr-2003
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 5 in National Plant Germplasm System.


Common names:

  • big-leaf maple   (Source: Maples ) – English
  • Oregon maple   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • Pacific maple   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental; shade/shelter   (fide Dict Gard)
  • Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Gelderen, D. M. van et al. 1994. Maples of the world. (Maples) 212–213.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
  • Murray, A. E. 1970. A monograph of the Aceraceae. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State Univ. (Monog Acer)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Check other databases for Acer macrophyllum Pursh:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Acer macrophyllum cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?1161 (09 February 2010)

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