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Acer skutchii
Acer skutchii, called the cloud forest sugar maple, Guatemalan maple, Mexican sugar maple, Skutch maple, or álamo plateado is a species of flowering plant in the genus Acer, native to Mexico and Guatemala.
Occurring in sheltered ravines on mountain slopes, it is found only in a few widely separated relict populations within cloud forests in Mexico and Guatemala, between 1480 and 2200 meters elevation. Populations are found in Chiapas, El Cielo Biosphere Reserve in Tamaulipas, and Sierra de las Minas in Guatemala.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acer skutchii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
