List of Acer species


There are nearly 160 species in the genus Acer. Species with evergreen foliage are tagged #. Species and sections that are extinct are tagged with †.

Species A-Z

The following is a list of accepted species ordered alphabetically. Living species are from the Plants of the World Online database, which is maintained by Kew Botanical Garden in London, with additions of extinct species from paleobotanical literature.

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Infrageneric classification of extant species follows The Maple Society, 2021.

Section ''Acer''

A number of fossil sections were suggested by paleobotanists Jack Wolfe and Toshimasa Tanai in their 1987 revision of the North American fossil Acer record.

''Macrantha'' Group

Section ''Arguta''

Section ''Acer''

Series ''Acer''

Section †''Columbiana''

Section ''Campestria''

Section ">extinction">† ''Alaskana''