Acer diabolicum

Acer diabolicum
Female flowers, with curled stigmas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Acer
Section: Acer sect. Lithocarpa
Species:
A. diabolicum
Binomial name
Acer diabolicum
Synonyms
  • Acer diabolicum f. purpurascens (Franch. & Sav.) Rehder
  • Acer diabolicum var. purpurascens (Franch. & Sav.) Rehder
  • Acer purpurascens Franch. & Sav.

Acer diabolicum, the horned maple or devil maple,[2] is a species of maple that is endemic to central and southern Japan. There it is known as カジカエデ, kaji kaede[a] or オニモミジ, oni‑momiji,[b] and is planted as an ornamental. It is occasionally planted as an ornamental outside Japan. It gets its specific epithet and its common names from the hornlike appearance of the two protruding curly stigmas of its flowers, which are retained on its winged seeds.[2]

  1. ^ Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 1:251. 1864
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference CompleteGuide was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ 日本大百科全書 [Encyclopedia Nipponica]. Tokyo: 小学館. 1984–1989. p. 190. ISBN 9784095260259.
  4. ^ Sogō, Naoki (1980). The Bisan Classification Dialect Dictionary. Kurashiki: Okayama Dialect Study Group. p. 42.
  5. ^ Matsumura, Jinzō (1884). Nippon Shokubutsumeii; or Nomenclature of Japanese Plants in Latin, Japanese and Chinese. Tokio: Z.P. Maruya. p. 3. OCLC 2891999.


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