Acer tutcheri Duthie

Trees 5-15 m tall, andromonoecious. Bark brown or dark brown. Branchlets slender, glabrous; winter buds ovoid. Leaves deciduous; petiole 2-3 cm, slender, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially pale green, 6-9 × 2-13 cm, membranous, both surfaces glabrous, primary veins 3, base rounded or rounded-truncate, usually 3-lobed, rarely 5-lobed; lobes triangular-ovate, rarely ovate-oblong, margin serrulate, with appressed acute teeth, entire near base, rarely only with a few small serrations near apex, apex acute or acuminate, rarely caudate-acuminate. Inflorescence shortly paniculate. Pedicel 5-8 mm. Sepals 4, ovate-oblong, apex obtuse. Petals 4, obovate. Stamens 8. Disk villous, extrastaminal. Ovary densely white pilose; style glabrous; stigmas recurved. Fruit yellowish; nutlets convex, ca. 6 mm in diam., veined; wing including nutlet 1.5-2.5 cm × 8-10 mm, wings spreading acutely to nearly horizontally. Fl. Apr, fr. Sep.

Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, S Hunan, S Jiangxi, Taiwan, S Zhejiang.

● Forests; 300-1000 m.

Acer tutcheri, or Tutcher's maple, is a species of deciduous maple tree native to the Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, south Hunan, south Jiangxi, and south Zhejiang provinces of southern China, as well as Taiwan and certain districts of Hong Kong.

Acer tutcheri is found in forests between 300 and 1000 metres of altitude. It is a tree up to 15 metres tall, with brown bark. The leaves are up to 9 cm long and 13 cm across, with three or occasionally five lobes. They are deciduous, hairless, thin and papery, and have teeth along the edges.