Korea Flora: Decuduous shrub up to 8m. Winter buds lanceolate, acuminate, scales 6-8, pseudoterminal 2, buds 2-3mm long. Branchlets glabrous. Leaf scars V or U form, leaves opposite, triangular-ovate, 4-8(10)cm × 3-6cm, often shallowly 3-fid, caudately acuminate with a subobtuse tip, glabrous on upper side, thinly pubescent on nerves beneath, incised and doubly serrate, the petioles 1-4 cm. long, glabrous and reddish; inflorescence compound-corymbose, rather many-flowered; flowers (andromonoecious) greenish yellow, small, male flowers 4.5mm across and sepals and petals 5 with 8 stames, bisexual flowers 1 styles and hairy ovary and 8-9 stamens. samaras glabrous or nearly so, erect or slightly ascending, wings and seeds 4-5 cm. long nd two wings spreading horizontally and seeds convex. Fruits numerous.
Flowering May
Fruting  mid Aug to mid Oct.
Distribution NE China, North to Central, Japan Hokkaido to Kyushu; widespred in Korea

 

Taxonomic notes: Acer tataricum is variable in fruit color and the reddish wing forms (f. coccineum Nakai) is difficult to separate from ssp. ginnala.  Acer ginnala f. divaricatum (Nakai) T.B. Lee is an invalidly published name.

Russia Flora: Shrub 2-4 (6) m tall, with prominent main skeletal axis. Terminal buds paired, about 1.5 mm long, dark red, with scattered fine pubescence along scale margins. Shoots grayish light brown, glabrous. Leaves 3-lobed, with middle lobe significantly exceeding lateral ones in length, 3-8 (14) cm long, 2-6 (8) cm wide, glabrous (only sometimes hairy along veins when young); leaf lobes unequally sharp-toothed or doubly toothed. Petioles usually shorter than leaf blade, glabrous. Inflorescence 20-60-flowered corymbiform panicles with scattered-pubescent and glandular axes and pedicels. Flowers up to 6 mm in diameter, light or whitish-yellow; petals slightly longer than sepals; ovaries densely hairy. Samaras 2.2-3 cm long, diverging at very acute angle, often anthocyanin-colored when immature. (Table XIX).

Distribution: Lower Zeya, Bureya, Ussuri (Fig. 65). - Near rivers, streams and lakes, in riverside tree-shrub groups and open areas, less frequently under canopy of valley forests and on bog shores. Flowering in June. Ornamental, especially during flowering and autumn leaf coloration. Good honey plant. Used in landscaping, but insufficiently.

General distribution: Japanese-Chinese (North, Central and Northeast China, Korean Peninsula). - Described from Khabarovsk: "On alluvial land and islands along Amur and Ussuri, 1855-56, C. Maximowicz" (type - LE).