Platanus kerrii

Taxobox
name = Kerr's Plane
status = VU
status_system = iucn2.3
status_ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=World Conservation Monitoring Centre|year=1998|id=32830|title=Platanus kerrii|downloaded=11 May 2006 Listed as Vulnerable (VU A1c v2.3)]
regnum = Plantae
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
ordo = Proteales
familia = Platanaceae
genus = "Platanus"
species = "P. kerrii"
binomial = "Platanus kerrii"
binomial_authority = Gagnep.

Kerr's Plane ("Platanus kerrii") is a somewhat anomalous species in the Plane tree family, native to Southeast Asia, and differs from the other species in being evergreen, having unlobed leaves, and in the leaf stem not enclosing the axillary bud at its base.

The plant is named after A.F.G. Kerr, who collected the type specimen in Laos in 1932. [ [http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/specimens?id=167440 HUH Specimen Index] ]

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