Chionanthus ramiflorus Roxb.

Type
Indigenous
Family
Oleaceae
Synonym
Linociera ramiflora (Roxb.) G. Don
Synonym_2
Linociera macrophylla Wall.ex G.Don
Habit
Medium to large sized tree
Botanical Features

Trees, to 20 m high, bark 1.3 cm, light greyish-brown, minutely warty tubercled; blaze creamy-yellow; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 20-30 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-20 x 2.5-6 cm, elliptic to obovate, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, glabrous, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, white, in axillary or terminal panicles; pedicel 1 cm long; calyx lobes 4, acute, glabrous; corolla 3 mm long, lobes 4, connate in pairs, narrowly oblong; stamens 2, attached at the base of corolla lobes; filaments short; anthers dehiscing on margin; connective broad; ovary 2-celled, superior, glabrous, ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous from the apex; style short. Fruit a drupe, oblong, 1.2-2 cm long, black, glabrous; seed solitary.