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Acer platanoides
| Description | Acer platanoides, the Norway maple, is a species of maple native to eastern and central Europe and western Asia, from France east to Russia, north to southern Scandinavia and southeast to northern Iran. It was brought to North America in the mid-1700s as a shade tree. It is a member of the soapberry and lychee family. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_platanoides, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Sapindales : Sapindaceae : Acer : Acer platanoides | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Generic Name | Acer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Acer platanoides L. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Sp. pl. 2:1055. 1753 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Spitz-ahorn, Norway Maple, Lönn, Skogslönn, Noorse Esdoorn, Spitzahorn, érable Plane, Spids-løn, érable De Norvège, érable Platanoïde, (metsä)vaahtera, Spisslønn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_platanoides |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Acer platanoides platanoides subspecies | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Acer platanoides turkestanicum subspecies | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Acer platanoides platanoides variety | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Acer platanoides raciborskii form | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
References
| Aronsson, Mora (2004) Thomas Karlssons Kärlväxtlista - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
| Van der Meijden, R. (2005) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN) |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
