Common name: London Plane
Platanus x hispanica 'Acerifolia' APNI* Description: Tree to 30 m high. Bark on trunk and larger branches smooth, exfoliating in large flakes leaving a mottled red, grey and yellow pattern; bark on lower trunk becoming grey and fibrous.
Leaves with stipules to 1.2 cm long, densely pubescent with dendritic hairs; petiole to 8 cm long, densely pubescent with dendritic hairs; lamina broadly to very broadly ovate, palmately 3–5-lobed with lobes themselves coarsely toothed or lobed, 8–20 cm long, 10–22 cm wide, truncate to subcordate at base, with palmate venation, glabrescent, with dense indumentum of dendritic hairs persistent only on veins.
Flowers usually 4-merous. Male flowers: sepals ovate, pubescent; petals oblong; stamens c. 4. Female flowers: calyx cupular; petals present, strap-like; carpels c. 6.
Fruiting heads 1–3 (–4) per inflorescence, 2–3 cm diam. Achenes surrounded by numerous long hairs attached to receptacle, narrowly obovate, 7–9 mm long, glabrous and rugose at apex, otherwise densely hairy with dendritic hairs.
Distribution and occurrence: Several plants recorded on shore of Lake Burley Griffin in A.C.T. in 2006. Doubtfully naturalised. Naturalised WA.
NSW subdivisions: ST
See Flora of Australia online (as Platanus hispanica) for notes about the hybrid origin and nomenclature of this taxon [accessed 17 Apr. 2023].
Text by Orchard, A.E. & Lepschi, B.J, adapted by K.L. Gibbons 18 Apr. 2023.
Taxon concept: Flora of Australia Online [accessed 17 Apr. 2023].
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