Fraxinus Linnaeus 1753 (ash)

Angiospermae - Lamiales - Oleaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Oleaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919

See also Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1899, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996, Mabberley 2000 and MacGinitie 1941

Sister taxa: Anacolosa, Chionanthus, Elaioides, Forestiera, Fraxinoxylon, Jasminum, Ligustrum, Notelaea, Olea, Oleaecarpum, Oleinites, Oleiphyllum, Oleocarpon, Oleoxylon, Oleracites, Osmanthus, Phillyrea, Schreberoidea, Schreberoxylon, Syringa

Subtaxa: Fraxinus abbreviata Fraxinus americana Fraxinus brownellii Fraxinus denticulata Fraxinus eocenica Fraxinus excelsior Fraxinus heerii Fraxinus herendeenensis Fraxinus integrifolia Fraxinus johnstrupi Fraxinus libbeyi Fraxinus mespilifolia Fraxinus myricaefolia Fraxinus nigra Fraxinus oligocenica Fraxinus oregonensis Fraxinus palaeophila Fraxinus praedicta Fraxinus quadrangulata Fraxinus richmondensis Fraxinus ungeri Fraxinus wilcoxiana Fraxinus wrightii Fraxinus yubaensis

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (2 collections), India (11), Japan (3), United States (5: Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of China (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Tennessee)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1)

• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)

• Miocene of China (1), Germany (4), Japan (4), Switzerland (1), United States (12: California, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Virginia)

• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), Japan (1), United States (2: Idaho, Oregon)

• Eocene of China (1), United States (6: California, Colorado, Washington, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of United States (13: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)

• Tertiary of Japan (1)

• Cretaceous of United States (6: Wyoming)

Total: 79 collections including 86 occurrences

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