Acer albopurpurascens

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Acer albopurpurascens, photographed by 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN — fig. b 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166540940

Acer albopurpurascens, photographed by chiuluan — fig. c chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139774191

Acer albopurpurascens, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu — fig. d Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122705632

Acer albopurpurascens, photographed by Jacy Chen — fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130053377

Acer albopurpurascens, photographed by Pieter Pelser — fig. g Pieter Pelser, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29945950

Acer albopurpurascens, photographed by fagushayata — fig. h fagushayata, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 32515653

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Acer albopurpurascens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Taiwan	TAI	ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Acer hypoleucum Hayata
Acer litseaefolium Hayata
Acer oblongum var. albopurpurascens (Hayata) S.S.Ying

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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