Acer laevigatumWall.

Smoothbark Maple

WFO wfo-0000514435 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 laevigatum, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. a Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / 2021-04-21 / obs. 122656250
Acer laevigatum, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 125748591
Acer laevigatum, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. c Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 122656226
Acer laevigatum, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. d Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 125748600
Acer laevigatum, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. e Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 122656293

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Acer laevigatum is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTibetAssamEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Acer laevigatum, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
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 7 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 laevigatum f. angustum (Pax) Schwer.
  • Acer laevigatum var. angustum Pax
  • Acer laevigatum var. dimorphifolium (Metcalf) W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Acer laevigatum var. laevigatum
  • Acer oblongum var. angustum (Pax) Wesm.
  • Acer oblongum var. laevigatum (Wall.) Wesm.
  • Acer salweenense W.W.Sm.

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.

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.