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Acer macrophyllum Pursh 1813
Sapindaceae
(APG IV)Oregon maple, Bigleaf maple
Akzessionnummer: SP-GB-064-18408
Pflanzjahr: 2018
Taxon concept: The Plant List (2014), version 1.1
Distribution: Canada: British Columbia; United States: California, Oregon, Washington, Southeast Alaska
Acer macrophyllum Pursh - Accepted: Acer macrophyllum Pursh bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Sapindaceae (APG III)
- Flowers
- monoecious, heterodichogamous plant
- Flower ecology
- insect-pollinated (entomophilous) (bees, flies, and beetles)
- Life form
- tree
- Foliage persistence
- deciduous
- Fruits
- bristly samara
- Fruit ecology
- wind-dispersed (anemochorous)
- Soil conditions
- preferentially on moist soils, often in alluvial soils
- Root type
- deep-rooted with low susceptibility to windthrow
- Succession type
- occurs often in intermediate or late seral communities
- Natural occurrence (habitat)
- mixed coniferous forests, mixed evergreen forests, e.g. Tanoak-Douglas-fir forests, California bay woodlands, floodplains, riparian forests (with black cottonwood, red alder, and/or white alder) and upland deciduous forests, moist canyons
- Comment to ecology
- is affected as an alternate host by sudden oak death disease caused by the fungal pathogen Phytophthora ramorum
- Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
- temperate, mixed mesophytic broad-leaved deciduous and mixed evergreen forests
- Constraints according moisture
- tolerates short periodes of flooding
- Constraints according temperature
- low frost tolerance
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