10 September 2019.
Kentucky, United States
Locality: Fayette County; Lexington; Floracliff Nature Sanctuary: Riverside Trail, Scheider Trail, near the Kentucky River. (Street address: 8000 Elk Lick Falls Road, Lexington, KY 40515).
Coordinates: 37.8982, -84.3643
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Elevation: 174m.
Environment description: Kentucky River Floodplain / Kentucky River Palisades: Transition from mixed mesophytic and Oak-Hickory woodland on shale or Camp Nelson Limestone. Possibly limestone cliff.
Associated species: Acer saccharum subsp. nigrum:Juglans nigra:Sanicula canadensis:Urtica sp.:Euonymus fortunei:Ulmus rubra:Platanus occidentalis:Lindera benzoin:Microstegium vimineum:Bignonia capreolata:Quercus muehlenbergii:Fraxinus pennsylvanica:Celtis occidentalis:Ageratina altissima var. altissima:Campanula americana:Asimina triloba:Quercus imbricaria:Acer saccharinum:Pilea pumila
Aspect: ;
Slope: 10 Degrees;
Soil Texture:
Comment: Tree/shrub; height 25 ft; bark gray, smooth; leaves elliptic to obovate, 5 leaflets (base cuneate, apex acuminate); margins finely serrate; abaxial pubescent when young nearly glabrous at maturity; 8 to 12 cm; flowers not present; obovoid capsule, brown, 3 to 5 cm.
Collector(s): - Deng, Tao, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS
- Gao, Xinfen, Chengdu Institute of Biology
- Gapinski, Andrew, Arnold Arboretum
- Halloran, Sean, Arnold Arboretum
- Magnan, Angela, U.S. National Arboretum
- Rubinstein, Jared, Arnold Arboretum
- Wang, Kang, Beijing Botanical Garden