Acer buergerianumMiq.

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WFO wfo-0000514011 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Acer buergerianum, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. a Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203591253
Acer buergerianum, photographed by Zinogre
fig. b Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 134962089
Acer buergerianum, photographed by linkie
fig. c linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97692802
Acer buergerianum, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67426291
Acer buergerianum, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16736512
Acer buergerianum, photographed by harum.koh
fig. f harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1316823
Acer buergerianum, photographed by asiminamacrophylla
fig. g asiminamacrophylla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198629445
Acer buergerianum, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. h Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188299021

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Acer buergerianum is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwan
Native distribution of Acer buergerianum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Taiwan TAI

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 16 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 buergerianum var. horizontale F.P.Metcalf
  • Acer buergerianum var. jiujiangense Z.X.Yu
  • Acer buergerianum var. kaiscianense (Pamp.) W.P.Fang
  • Acer buergerianum var. ningpoense (Hance) A.E.Murray
  • Acer buergerianum var. trinerve (Siesmayer) Rehder
  • Acer buergerianum var. yentangense W.P.Fang & M.Y.Fang
  • Acer lingii W.P.Fang
  • Acer ningpoense (Hance) W.P.Fang
  • Acer paxii var. ningpoense (Hance) Pax
  • Acer subtrilobum (K.Koch) Koidz.
  • Acer trifidum Hook. & Arn.
  • Acer trifidum f. elobatum Kuntze ex Schwer.
  • Acer trifidum f. ningpoense (Hance) Schwer.
  • Acer trifidum var. kaiscianensis Pamp.
  • Acer trifidum var. ningpoense Hance
  • Acer trinerve Siesmayer

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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