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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Fraxinus rotundifolia

Citation: Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8, (Fraxinus no. 2) (1768) subsp. rotundifolia.

Synonymy: F. angustifolia Vahl, Enum. Pl. 1:52 (1804); F. oxycarpa M. Bieb. ex Willd., Sp. Pl. 4:100 (1806).

Common name: Desert ash, ash.

Description:
Deciduous tree to 20 m or more in height, young shoots and leaves glabrous, dormant buds dark-brown; leaflets usually 5-7, rarely to 11 or even 13, narrowly lanceolate or elliptic, usually 5-8, rarely 3-9 cm long, 0.7-2 rarely 3 cm broad, sessile, serrate, base acute or cuneate, apex acuminate, juvenile leaves ovate, rounded.

Inflorescence axillary, many-flowered, appearing before the leaves; calyx and corolla absent.

Samaras elliptic, slightly twisted, 3-4 cm long, winged in the upper half.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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