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Aceraceae
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thumb|Field maple Acer campestre, in Ebsdorfergrund-Frauenberg, Hesse, Germany

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderSapindales
  5. FamilyAceraceae
Observations recorded134

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
111
With media
81
Family
Aceraceae
Collections
CAS, UOMNH, SDNHM, TAES, NHMUK, USMS
Recorded in
China, United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Peru, Australia

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thumb|Field maple Acer campestre, in Ebsdorfergrund-Frauenberg, Hesse, Germany

Aceraceae were recognized as a family of flowering plants also called the maple family. They contain two to four genera, depending upon the circumscription, of some 120 species of trees and shrubs. A common characteristic is that the leaves are opposite, and the fruit a schizocarp.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aceraceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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