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Botanical

Peter Gregory’s Maple Profiles: Acer sieboldianum

Peter Gregory profiles Siebold’s Maple, Acer sieboldianum

Maples of Iturraran Botanical Garden: Acer section Hyptiocarpa

Maples of Iturraran Botanical Garden: Acer section Hyptiocarpa W. P. Fang (1996) Next in our multilingial series bringing you the maples of one of Europe’s great Botanical Gardens, Iturraran.  By Francisco Garin, Former Director of Iturraran.  In English, French and Spanish!  En Anglais, Francais et Espagnole.  En Inglés, Español y Francés.

Peter Gregory’s Maple Profiles: Acer davidii

Peter Gregory profiles Father David’s Maple, Acer davidii

Worldwide Maple Diversity, Piet C. de Jong, 2002

Worldwide Maple Diversity, Piet C. de Jong, Ph.D., Von Gimborn Arboretum, Utrecht University, 2002 Originally published in The Proceedings of The International Maple Symposium, 2002.  The Maple Society Open Science Initiative presents the first ever digital edition of this important and frequently referenced paper, which updated the the Acer classification presented by de Jong in Maples of the World in 1996, […]

Peter Gregory’s Maple Profiles: Acer robustum

Peter Gregory profiles the Robust Maple. Maple Profile: Acer robustum

Taxonomy and phylogenetic insights for Mexican and Central American species of Acer

Taxonomy and phylogenetic insights for Mexican and Central American species of Acer (Sapindaceae). By Yalma L. Vargas-Rodriguez et al, University of Guadalajara. Copyright 2020 Torrey Botanical Society. This study evaluates the morphological variation and updates the taxonomic status, distribution, and phylogenetic relationships of Acer in Middle America, the southernmost geographic range of the genus in the […]

The Evolution of the Reproductive Organs of Maples; Analyses of Morphology and Flowering in Light of the Phylogeny of the Genus

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. 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 […]

The Red List of Acer

Botanic Gardens Conservation International, (BGCI) with the support of The Maple Society and the Open Science Initiative, presents The Red List of Acer: revised and extended, published 22 Spetember 2020. This most important of maple conservation documents gives the conservation status of 158 maple species. The report reveals that one if five of Acer species […]

Classification of Acer after the Accepted Names

A classification of the species Acer following the Accepted Names. This classification, edited by E. Davis, summarizes current thinking and incorporates the work of the Maple Society Species Group to organize the list of Accepted Names in Acer, according to the classification proposed by Crowley, D. (2020), ‘Acer’ from the website Trees and Shrubs Online.
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