Chionanthus ramiflorus

Chionanthus ramiflorus
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Oleaceae
Genus:	Chionanthus
Species:	C. ramiflorus
Binomial name
Chionanthus ramiflorus Roxb.

Chionanthus ramiflorus (syn. Linociera ramiflora (Roxb.) Wall.) is a species of flowering plant in the family Oleaceae. It is native to northeastern Australia (Queensland), New Guinea, India, Nepal, the Philippines, southern China, and Taiwan.^[1][2][3]

It is an evergreen shrub or tree growing to 3–23 m tall. The leaves are 8–20 cm long and 4–7 cm broad, simple ovate to oblong-elliptic, with a 2–5 cm petiole. The flowers are white or yellow, produced in panicles 2.5–12 cm long. The fruit is a blue-black drupe 1.5–3 cm long and 0.5–2.2 cm diameter.^[1]

It is sometimes treated in the segregate genus Linociera, though this does not differ from Chionanthus in any character other than leaf persistence, not a taxonomically significant character.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Flora of China: Chionanthus ramiflorus
2. ^ Australian Plant Names Index: Chionanthus ramiflorus
3. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). Linociera ramiflora
4. ^ Flora of China: Chionanthus