| General Description | This new maple (discovered in 2003), has been placed on the IUCN Red List as globally threatened. |
| Habitat | On the western slopes of the Mt. Cangshan valley. |
| Bark/Stem Description | Newer branchlets are pubescent and greenish in colour, the older branchles are glabrescent and brown or dark brown in colour. |
| Flower/Leaf Bud Description | Ovoid, dark brown with 9 pairs of scales. |
| Leaf Description | Thin, 5 primary veins with 5 shallow lobes and a cordate base, 10-20 x 11-25 cm. |
| Flower Description | Yellowish-green 5 petaled flower with 5 yellowish-green sepals, 8 stamens. Flowers are hermaphroditic. |
| Fruit Description | Fruit racemes of 9-17 fruits, reddish green when young maturing to a yellowish brown, winged nutles, produced in September. |