Acer sempervirens (Cretan maple)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Acer sempervirens, photographed by Yves Bas — fig. a Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 203153806

Acer sempervirens, photographed by Edmundas Greimas — fig. b Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174236003

Acer sempervirens, photographed by Ronald Flipphi — fig. c Ronald Flipphi, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 38559283

Acer sempervirens, photographed by William Stephens — fig. d William Stephens, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66148989

Acer sempervirens, photographed by helen1688 — fig. e helen1688, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200450813

Acer sempervirens, photographed by pavlaki1968 — fig. f pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150097277

Acer sempervirens, photographed by Sam J. Thomas — fig. g Sam J. Thomas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101600867

Acer sempervirens, photographed by Mattia Aaron Miroddi — fig. h Mattia Aaron Miroddi, CC0 1.0 / obs. 7752726

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Acer sempervirens, 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 Aegean Is.	EAI	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria	LBS
Türkiye	TUR
Greece	GRC	EUROPE
Kriti	KRI

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 12 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 creticum var. cuneifolium Spach
Acer creticum var. rotundifolium Spach
Acer heterophyllum Willd.
Acer humile Salisb.
Acer orientale L.
Acer orientale f. cuneifolium (Spach) Schwer.
Acer orientale f. ovale (Pax) Schwer.
Acer orientale f. rotundifolium (Spach) Schwer.
Acer orientale var. cuneifolium (Spach) Pax
Acer orientale var. ovale Pax
Acer orientale var. rotundifolium (Spach) Pax
Acer willkommii Wettst.

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.