Fraxinus chinensis

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderLamiales
5. FamilyOleaceae

Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Manchuria, Primorye, Qinghai, Thailand, Tibet

Observations recorded9,193

Trees 3-20 m. Branchlets glabrous, sparsely villous puberulent or tomentose; buds broadly ovoid or conical, brown tomentose, pubescent or glandular hairy. Leaves 12-35 cm; petiole 3-9 cm; axis puberulent or pilose at first, leaflet joint glabrous or densely tomentose; leaflets 3-7(-9); petiolule 2-15 mm; leaflet blade broadly ovate, ovate, to lanceolate or elliptic to obovate-lanceolate, 4-16 × 2-7 cm (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. Samara spatulate to very narrowly so, 2.5-4 cm × 3-7(-15) mm; wing decurrent to middle or lower part of nutlet.

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

318

With media

278

Family

Oleaceae

Collections

MICH, NY, US, A, IBUNAM, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA)

Recorded in

China, United States, Colombia, Puerto Rico, ColôMbia, Venezuela

Wikidata facts

Parent taxon

Fraxinus

Has use

wood

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