Acer campbellii (Campbell's Maple)

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Acer campbellii, photographed by Eugene Popov — fig. a Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-09 / obs. 119781828

Acer campbellii, photographed by Anirban Datta-Roy — fig. c Anirban Datta-Roy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142813563

Acer campbellii, photographed by P Jeganathan — fig. e P Jeganathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173731729

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Native distribution of Acer campbellii, 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
East Himalaya	EHM	ASIA-TROPICAL
Laos	LAO
Myanmar	MYA
Nepal	NEP
Vietnam	VIE
West Himalaya	WHM
China South-Central	CHC	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast	CHS
Tibet	CHT

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 26 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 angustilobum Hu
Acer angustilobum f. longicaudatum W.P.Fang
Acer angustilobum var. kwangtungense (Chun) W.P.Fang
Acer angustilobum var. longicaudatum (W.P.Fang) W.P.Fang
Acer bicolor var. serrulatum (F.P.Metcalf) W.P.Fang
Acer campbellii subsp. heptaphlebium (Gagnep.) A.E.Murray
Acer campbellii var. campbellii
Acer campbellii var. longilobum (W.P.Fang) P.C.de Jong
Acer campbellii var. serratifolia Banerji
Acer campbellii var. yunnanense Rehder
Acer cappadocicum var. serrulatum F.P.Metcalf
Acer flabellatum Rehder
Acer flabellatum var. yunnanense (Rehder) W.P.Fang
Acer heptalobum Diels
Acer heptaphlebium Gagnep.
Acer sinense subsp. chekiangense (W.P.Fang) A.E.Murray
Acer sinense var. brevilobum W.P.Fang
Acer sinense var. concolor Pax
Acer sinense var. iatrophifolium Diels
Acer sinense var. kwangtungense Chun
Acer sinense var. longilobum W.P.Fang
Acer sinense var. microcarpum F.P.Metcalf
Acer sinense var. pubinerve (Rehder) W.P.Fang
Acer taiwanense Yamam.

and 2 more.

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.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.