This lecture, originally presented in 2014 at the International Maple Symposium at the Morris Arboretum, considers both the evolution of maple flowers and fruit and the often conflicting ramifications of molecular studies of Acer, following the author’s seminal 2002 classification in Worldwide Maple Diversity.
A lecture by Dr P. C. de Jong: The Evolution of the Reproductive Organs of Maples; Analyses of Morphology and Flowering in Light of the Phylogeny of the Genus.