Acer acuminatum

Tapering leaf maple is in the soapberry or Sapindaceae family and is native to the Himalayas and neighboring mountains in Tibet, Kashmir, northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It is a multi-stemmed tree, reaching up to 10 m in height.

• Leaves are deciduous, simple, opposite, 8–14 cm long, 3 to 5-lobed (basal lobes small or absent), lobes triangular, ending in long, tapering tips about 1 cm long, margins sharply serrate, glabrescent, bearded in the axils beneath; base is either heart-shaped or flat. Petiole is 5–10 cm long, slender, pubescent, often reddish.
• Species is dioecious; pistillate flowers are in clusters (racemes) of 4, 5 mm across, at the end of leafy shoots, greenish and produced in April, with 4 oblong sepals 3–4 mm long.
• Winged samaras are double, 2–3 cm long, from horseshoe-shaped to diverging at a wide angle, sometimes first reddish as they form.