Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Rosopsida Batsch - eudicots |
| order | Sapindales Dumortier |
| family | Sapindaceae Juss. |
| subfamily | Hippocastanoideae Burnett |
| genus | Acer L. - maple |
| section | Acer sect. Platanoidea Pax |
| species | Acer pictum Thunb. ex Murray - Painted Maple |
| subspecies | Acer pictum subsp. macropterum (W. P. Fang) H. Ohashi |