Acer fabri

Acer fabri, or Faber's maple, is a species of evergreen maple shrub native to Vietnam and central to southern China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan). Acer fabri is a shrub rarely more than 1 meter tall. It has with unlobed, lance-shaped leaves, unlike the multilobed leaves found on most maple species. Newly grown leaves and samaras take on a reddish hue. It was collected by the Rev. Ernst Faber and described by Henry Fletcher Hance.