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Taxon: Acer pensylvanicum L.

Genus: Acer section: Macrantha
Family: Sapindaceae subfamily: Hippocastanoideae. Also placed in: Aceraceae
Nomen number: 1202
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1055. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 06-Apr-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Apr-1999
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
Check AABGA/NAPCC Contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
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Common names:

  • goosefoot   (Source: Dict Gard )
  • moosewood   (Source: Dict Gard )
  • pennsylvanischer Ahorn   (Source: Maples )
  • snakebark maple   (Source: Dict Gard )
  • Streifenahorn   (Source: Maples )
  • striped maple   (Source: Maples )
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Eastern Canada: Canada - Nova Scotia, Ontario [s.], Quebec [s.]
    Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio [n.e.], Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
    North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Minnesota [e.], Wisconsin
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Georgia [n.], Kentucky [e.], Maryland [w.], North Carolina [w.], South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia [w.]
Other:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. (F Indiana) [mentions].
  • 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) 157.
  • 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)
  • Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Acer pensylvanicum L.:

  • 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 pensylvanicum 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:

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  • 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?1202 (22 November 2009)

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