Common name: Red Ash Alphitonia excelsa (A.Cunn. ex Fenzl)
Benth. APNI* Description: Small to medium-sized tree with buds
and young stems grey to golden-brown hairy. Leaves elliptic or
ovate to oblong, mostly 5–14 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, dark green,
glossy and finely reticulate above, densely white-hairy below
with the veins raised and brownish green; petiole 5–10 mm long:
stipules 2–10 mm long. Fruit ovoid to globose, 5–10 mm diam.,
black. Distribution and occurrence: On the margin of warmer
rainforest on the coast north from Mt Dromedary, also in scrub
and open forest, often in sheltered gullies or on steep slopes
north from Denman and west to the Pilliga Scrub and Yetman
district. NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, NWS, CWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. N.T. Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990) APNI* Provides a link to
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