Plant Details

Accepted name:: Acer saccharinum L. [Sapindaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
acer saccharinum whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
maple	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
silver maple	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
tath isfendan agaci	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 60 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Acer coccineum Wender. Schriften Ges. Beförd. Gesammten Naturwiss. Marburg 2: 251 (1831).
Acer collinsonia Thunb. Acer.: 6 (1793).
Acer dasycarpum Ehrh. Beitr. Naturk. Verw. Wiss. 4: 24 (1784).
Acer dasycarpum subvar. albomaculatum Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7: 180 (1885).
Acer dasycarpum f. albovariegatum Späth Nursery Cat. (Späth) 1883: ? (1883).
Acer dasycarpum f. arbusculum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 162 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum f. aureomarginatum Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 436 (1891).
Acer dasycarpum var. aureovariegatum G.Nicholson Gard. Chron., n.s., 15: 137 (1881).
Acer dasycarpum f. citreovariegatum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 163 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum var. coloratum Wesm. Rev. Acer: 11 (1890).
Acer dasycarpum subvar. cuneatum Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7: 180 (1885).
Acer dasycarpum f. curvatum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 165 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum var. dissectum (Pax) Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 166 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum subvar. dissectum Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7: 180 (1885).
Acer dasycarpum f. heterophyllum D.Thomson Garden (London, 1871-1927) 20: 167 (1881).
Acer dasycarpum heterophyllum-laciniatum Carrière Garden (London, 1871-1927) 20: 167 (1881).
Acer dasycarpum var. laciniatum (Pax) Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 165 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum subvar. laciniatum Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7: 180 (1885).
Acer dasycarpum f. lacteum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 163 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum var. longifolium Späth Nursery Cat. (Späth) 57: 2 (1883).
Acer dasycarpum var. lutescens Späth Nursery Cat. (Späth) 57: 2 (1883).
Acer dasycarpum f. lutescens (Späth) Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 163 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum f. macrophyllum Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 436 (1891).
Acer dasycarpum f. monstrosum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 162 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum f. nanum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 162 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum subvar. normale Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7: 180 (1885), not validly publ.
Acer dasycarpum f. palmatum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 163 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum f. pendulum (Van Houtte) Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 163 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum var. pendulum Van Houtte Gard. Chron., n.s., 3: 19 (1875).
Acer dasycarpum f. pseudoternatum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 165 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum var. pulverulentum Späth Nursery Cat. (Späth) 57: 2 (1883).
Acer dasycarpum pyramidale Späth Nursery Cat. (Späth) 1885: ? (1885).
Acer dasycarpum f. pyramidale (Späth) Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 162 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum f. sanguineum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 162 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum f. serpentinum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 162 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum var. subtrilobatum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 163 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum f. tripartitum Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 163 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum f. weiri Schwer. Gartenflora 42: 166 (1893).
Acer dasycarpum weiri-laciniatum Späth Monatsschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 22: 20 (1879).
Acer eriocarpum Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 253 (1803).
Acer heterophyllum var. laciniatum Carrière Garden (London, 1871-1927) 20: 167 (1881).
Acer pallidum Aiton ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 11 (1840), not validly publ.
Acer pavia Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 436 (1892).
Acer saccharinum f. ahlesii A.E.Murray Kalmia 11: 2 (1981).
Acer saccharinum f. laciniatum (Carrière) Rehder Bibliogr. Cult. Trees: 427 (1949).
Acer saccharinum f. lutescens (Späth) Pax in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 163: 39 (1902).
Acer saccharinum f. pendulum (Van Houtte) Pax in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 163: 39 (1902).
Acer saccharinum var. pseudoplatanoides Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7: 242 (1886).
Acer saccharinum f. purpureocarpum A.E.Murray Kalmia 12: 17 (1982).
Acer saccharinum f. pyramidale (Späth) Pax in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 163: 39 (1902).
Acer saccharinum f. tripartitum (Schwer.) Pax in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 163: 39 (1902).
Acer saccharinum f. variifolium V.V.Byalt & Firsov Hortus Botanicus 10: 103 (2015).
Acer saira G.Kirchn. in E.A.Petzold & G.Kirchner, Arbor. Muscav.: 189 (1864).
Acer virginianum Mill. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 5 (1821).
Acer wagneri laciniatum Carrière Rev. Hort. (Paris) 40: 387 (1868).
Acer weiri-laciniatum (Späth) Goeschke Wiener Ill. Gart.-Zeitung 7: 411 (1882).
Argentacer saccharinum (L.) Small Man. S.E. Fl.: 825 (1933).
Argentacer saccharinum var. laciniatum (Carrière) Moldenke Castanea 9: 53 (1944).
Saccharodendron saccharinum (L.) Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 183 (1914).
Sacchrosphendamnus saccharinus (L.) Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 183 (1914).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Acer saccharinum	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Acer saccharinum L.	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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