Dipteronia

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Dipteronia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dipteronia/). Accessed 2024-04-25.

Family

Aceraceae

Species in genus

Dipteronia sinensis

Glossary

family: A group of genera more closely related to each other than to genera in other families. Names of families are identified by the suffix ‘-aceae’ (e.g. Myrtaceae) with a few traditional exceptions (e.g. Leguminosae).
imparipinnate: Odd-pinnate; (of a compound leaf) with a central rachis and an uneven number of leaflets due to the presence of a terminal leaflet. (Cf. paripinnate.)

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Dipteronia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dipteronia/). Accessed 2024-04-25.

Dipteronia sinensis infructescence, on a plant at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK. July 2022. Image Tom Christian.

This small genus, with two species in C. and S. China, is the only member of the Maple family other than Acer itself. From the true maples it is very distinct in its fruit, in which each of the pair of nutlets is evenly winged all around; the leaflets, too, are more numerous than in any of the pinnate-leaved maples.

From the Supplement (Vol.V)

Specimens of D. sinensis: Westonbirt, Glos., Willesley Drive, 35 × 2 + 11⁄2 ft (1977); Hergest Croft, Heref., 37 × 3 ft (1969); Crathes Castle, Kinc., 33 × 23⁄4 ft (1981).