| Chionanthus ramiflorus | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Oleaceae |
| Genus: | Chionanthus |
| Species: | C. ramiflorus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chionanthus ramiflorus Roxb. |
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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]