Acer erianthum

Acer erianthum is in the soapberry or Sapindaceae family and is native to eastern China (provinces of Gansu, Guangxi, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan). It can reach up to 15 m in height.

Acer erianthum is in the soapberry or Sapindaceae family and is native to eastern China (provinces of Gansu, Guangxi, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan). It can reach up to 15 m in height.

• Branchlets are green, dense; bark on trunk is scabrous (rough, mangy).
• Leaves are deciduous, simple, opposite, 5–12 cm long and as wide, papery, 5, 6 or 7-lobed, lobes ovate, sharply and unevenly toothed, tips pointed, upper surface is green, lower surface pale green, glabrous below with white down in the vein axles on the lower surface, petiole slender, 2.5–10 cm long.
• Species is dioecious; inflorescences [flowers] are in erect panicles [clusters of flowers on a stem], female flowers very small (3–4 mm).
• Fruit is a double samara [twinned seeds with fibrous wings] spreading horizontally. They are crowded in upright panicles 5–10 cm long and 2.5–3 cm wide.