Acer pectinatumWall. ex G.Nicholson

Wongka Maple

WFO wfo-0000514823 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 pectinatum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-06-05 / obs. 61310174
Acer pectinatum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61310178
Acer pectinatum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61310180
Acer pectinatum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61310185
Acer pectinatum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61310171

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Acer pectinatum is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Qinghai China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastQinghai
Native distribution of Acer pectinatum, 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
Qinghai CHQ

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 22 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 chienii Hu & W.C.Cheng
  • Acer chloranthum Merr.
  • Acer forrestii Diels
  • Acer forrestii f. caudatilobum Rehder
  • Acer grosseri var. forrestii (Diels) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Acer laisuense W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Acer laxiflorum Pax
  • Acer laxiflorum var. dolichophyllum W.P.Fang
  • Acer laxiflorum var. integrifolium W.P.Fang
  • Acer laxiflorum var. longilobum Rehder
  • Acer laxiflorum var. longiphyllum W.P.Fang
  • Acer maximowiczii Pax
  • Acer maximowiczii subsp. porphyrophyllum W.P.Fang
  • Acer maximowiczii var. minor W.W.Sm.
  • Acer pectinatum Wall. ex Pax
  • Acer pectinatum f. caudatilobum (Rehder) W.P.Fang
  • Acer pectinatum f. rufinerve A.E.Murray
  • Acer pectinatum subsp. pectinatum
  • Acer pectinatum var. caudatilobum (Rehder) A.E.Murray
  • Acer pectinatum var. longilobum (Rehder) A.E.Murray
  • Acer taronense Hand.-Mazz.
  • Acer urophyllum Maxim.

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.