Taxon: Acer pseudoplatanus L.
Genus: Acer section: Acer series: Acer
Family: Sapindaceae subfamily: Hippocastanoideae. Also placed in:
Aceraceae
Nomen number: 1211
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1054. 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). Accessions:
4 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
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CT*, MA*.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- great maple (Source: Dict Gard
) – English
- Scottish maple (Source: Dict Gard
) – English
- sycamore (Source: BSBI
) – English
- sycamore maple (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- érable sycomore (Source: Maples
) – French
- Bergahorn (Source: Maples
) – German
- More:
Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Turkey Caucasus: Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
- EUROPE
Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland East Europe: Moldova; Ukraine Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Romania Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- naturalized in n. Europe, temperate Asia, Australia, New Zealand, s. South America, & Canary Islands
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
- 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)
178–180.
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Little, E. L., Jr.
1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
- Meyer, F. G. et al.
1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. (L CultWPl SE 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)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds.
1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Acer pseudoplatanus L.:
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Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Acer pseudoplatanus 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
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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.
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Cite as: 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?1211 (09 February 2010)
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