Acer truncatumBunge

Shandong Maple

WFO wfo-0000515246 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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 truncatum, photographed by Yi CHEN
fig. a Yi CHEN, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-05-20 / obs. 74115553
Acer truncatum, photographed by Andy Kleinhesselink
fig. b Andy Kleinhesselink, CC0 1.0 / obs. 23714069
Acer truncatum, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. c Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152914700
Acer truncatum, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. d Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78451060
Acer truncatum, photographed by Yi CHEN
fig. e Yi CHEN, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74115563

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Acer truncatum is native: Amur, China North-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Sakhalin AmurChina North-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaJapanManchuriaSakhalin Korea
Native distribution of Acer truncatum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM
Sakhalin SAK

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 14 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 cappadocicum subsp. truncatum (Bunge) A.E.Murray
  • Acer laetum var. truncatum (Bunge) Regel
  • Acer lobelii subsp. truncatum (Bunge) Wesm.
  • Acer lobelii var. platanoides Miyabe
  • Acer lobulatum Nakai
  • Acer lobulatum var. rubripes Nakai
  • Acer pictum subsp. truncatum (Bunge) A.E.Murray
  • Acer pictum var. truncatum (Bunge) Chin S.Chang
  • Acer platanoides var. truncatum (Bunge) Gams
  • Acer truncatum f. barbinerve (Nakai) M.Kim
  • Acer truncatum f. cordatum L.S.Tung
  • Acer truncatum var. acuminatum X.M.Liu
  • Acer truncatum var. beipiao S.L.Tung
  • Acer truncatum var. nudum Schwer.

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.