Fraxinus sieboldiana Blume

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Fraxinus sieboldiana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/fraxinus/fraxinus-sieboldiana/). Accessed 2024-03-19.

Synonyms

  • F. longicuspis var. sieboldiana (Bl.) Lingelsh.
  • F. longicuspis sensu Lingelsh., in part, not (?) Sieb. & Zucc.

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
axillary
Situated in an axil.
entire
With an unbroken margin.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glandular
Bearing glands.
leaflet
Leaf-like segment of a compound leaf.
midrib
midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
petiole
Leaf stalk.
rachis
Central axis of an inflorescence cone or pinnate leaf.
section
(sect.) Subdivision of a genus.
type specimen
A herbarium specimen cited in a taxonomic account to define a particular species or other taxon.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Fraxinus sieboldiana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/fraxinus/fraxinus-sieboldiana/). Accessed 2024-03-19.

A slender tree 20 to 30, sometimes 50 ft high in Japan, belonging to the Ornus section; young shoots soon glabrous, grey. Leaves ordinarily 4 to 6 in. long; leaflets usually five (rarely seven), which are 112 to 4 in. long, 34 to 112 in. wide, ovate to obovate, tapered at the base, the apex abruptly contracted into a slender point, toothed or almost entire, glabrous above, downy only at the sides of the midrib near the base beneath or sometimes quite glabrous beneath. The terminal leaflet, which is the largest, has a stalk 12 to 34 in. long, the uppermost pair are stalkless, the lower pair or pairs shortly stalked; common stalk grooved on the upper side. Flowers white, in terminal and axillary panicles 3 to 5 in. long, produced in June. Petals four, about 14 in. long. It is the Japanese representative of F. ornus, differing most obviously in the few leaflets.

This ash is usually called F. longicuspis, but according to Ohwi’s Flora of Japan (1965) the species so named by Siebold and Zuccarini has flowers without petals and differs in other respects also from the plant described above. This conclusion is no doubt based on an examinaton of the type specimen.

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

The question mark inserted before ‘not Sieb. & Zucc.’ in the first printing should be deleted.

F. sieboldiana is very closely allied to the later-named F. mariesii and if the two were united, as they are by T. Nakaike, the species would range from Japan and Korea to central China.

† F. lanuginosa Koidz. F. sieboldiana var. pubescens Koidz.; F. longicuspis sensu Lingelsh., in part, not Sieb. & Zucc. – This flowering ash is closely ailed to F. sieboldiana. The leaflets are serrated, sometimes quite finely so, and the leaf-rachis and petiole are either glabrous or clad with short, stiff, straight hairs, whereas in F. sieboldiana the leaflets are entire or crenated, and the rachis and petiole are finely downy and often glandular. In addition, F. lanuginosa has winter-buds with two pairs of scales (three in F. sieboldiana). In Japan, this species occurs at higher elevations than F. sieboldiana and is also a native of Korea. It is mentioned here as a species worthy of introduction.


F lanuginosa Koidz

This is said to be very near to F. sieboldiana, differing in having the young stems, petioles, and inflorescences either quite glabrous or clad with short, spreading, rather bristly hairs.