Common name: Chinese Ash
Fraxinus chinensis Roxb. APNI* Description: Tree 3–20 m high. Branchlets glabrous, variously hairy. Buds broadly ovoid or conical, brown tomentose.
Leaves 12–35 cm; petiole 3–9 cm; axis puberulent or pilose at first, leaflet joint glabrous or densely tomentose. Leaflets 3–9; petiolule 2–15 mm long; blades broad-ovate, ovate, to lanceolate or elliptic to obovate-lanceolate, 4–16 cm long, 2–7 cm wide (terminal much larger), papery to somewhat leathery, glabrous or villous, sometimes villous only along veins abaxially, base blunt or cuneate, margin regularly serrate to crenate-serrate, sometimes entire in lower half, apex acute to long acuminate or caudate; primary veins 5–10 on each side of midrib
Panicles terminal or lateral, 5–10 cm. Flowers dioecious, opening with leaves. Staminate flowers congested; calyx cupular, 1–1.5 mm; corolla absent. Pistillate flowers lax; calyx tubular, 2–3 mm.
Fruit a samara, spathulate to very narrowly so, 2.5–4 cm long, 3–7(-15) mm wide; wing decurrent to middle or lower part of nutlet.
Distribution and occurrence: One occurrence only at West Pymble, Quarry Creek. Naturalised also in Queensland.
NSW subdivisions: *CC
Text by Louisa Murray
Taxon concept: Flora of China, Vol 15.
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