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)
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