Fraxinus griffithii C.B.Clarke APNI* Description: Trees 10–20 m high, evergreen. Branchlets pubescent, glabrescent; buds naked.
Leaves 10–25 cm; petiole 3–8 cm; axis glabrous or puberulent; leaflets 5–7(-11); petiolule 5–10 mm; blade ovate to lanceolate, 2–10(-14) cm long, 1–5 cm wide (basal pair usually smaller), leathery or thin leathery, adaxially glabrous, abaxially glandular dotted, base blunt to rounded, attenuate to petiolule, or oblique, margin entire, apex obliquely cuspidate to acuminate; primary veins 5–10 on each side of midrib, obscure or rarely obvious.
Panicles terminal, 10–25 cm. Flowers bisexual, appearing after leaves. Pedicel slender, 2–4 mm. Calyx cupular, ca. 1 mm, puberulent or glabrous, subentire to broadly deltate toothed. Corolla white; ca. 2 mm. Stamens ca. equal to corolla lobes.
Fruit a samara, broadly lanceolate-spatulate, 2.5–3 cm × 4–5 mm; wing decurrent to about middle of nutlet.
Distribution and occurrence: One occurrence only at West Pymble, Quarry Creek. Naturalised also in Queensland. Native of China to Malayan Archipelago and Philippines.
NSW subdivisions: *CC
Text by Seanna McCune
Taxon concept: Flora of China, Vol 15.
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