Chionanthus roxburghii var. intermedius(Wight) S.K.Srivast. & S.L.Kapoor
Chionanthus tenuiflorusWall. ex DC.
Linociera cumingianaS.Vidal
Linociera effusifloraF.Muell.
Linociera intermediaWight
Linociera intermedia var. roxburghii(Spreng.) C.B.Clarke
Linociera macrophyllaWall. ex G.Don
Linociera macrophylla var. attenuata(Wall. ex G.Don) C.B.Clarke
Linociera oblongaWall. ex G.Don
Linociera pauciflora(Wall. ex G.Don) C.B.Clarke
Linociera pauciflora var. evolutiorC.B.Clarke
Linociera pauciflora var. palembanica(Miq.) C.B.Clarke
Linociera picrophloia(F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey
Linociera ramiflora var. grandiflora(B.M.Miao) B.M.Miao
Linociera ramiflora f. pubisepalaL.C.Chia
Mayepea cumingiana(S.Vidal) Merr.
Mayepea intermedia(Wight) Kuntze
Mayepea palembanica(Miq.) Kuntze
Mayepea pauciflora(Wall. ex G.Don) Kuntze
Mayepea picrophloia(F.Muell.) F.Muell.
Olea attenuataWall. ex G.Don
Olea floribundaBenth.
Olea paniculataRoxb.
Olea paucifloraWall. ex G.Don
Olea roxburghianaSchult.
Olea roxburghiiSpreng.
Phillyrea ramifloraRoxb. ex C.B.Clarke
Chionanthus ramiflorus, commonly known in Australia as northern olive or native olive, is a species of plant in the olive family Oleaceae. It is native to India, Nepal, Queensland (Australia), New Guinea, the Philippines, southern China and Taiwan.[3][4][1]
They grow as evergreen shrubs or trees to 3–23m (10–75ft) tall. The leaves are 8–20cm (3–8in) long and 4–7cm (1.6–2.8in) broad, simple ovate to oblong-elliptic, with a 2–5cm (0.8–2.0in) petiole. The flowers are white or yellow, produced in panicles2.5–12cm (1.0–4.7in) long. The fruit is a blue-black drupe1.5–3cm (0.6–1.2in) long and 0.5–2.2cm (0.2–0.9in) diameter.[3][5]
Sometimes the species is treated in the segregate genus Linociera, though this does not differ from Chionanthus in any character other than leaf persistence, not a taxonomically significant character.[6]
The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia' records that "The fruit of this plant is the food of the jagged-tailed bower-bird (Preonodura Neivtoniana). (Bailey.) This observation is interesting, and is the more valuable in that the vegetable foods of our indigenous fauna have very rarely been botanically determined. This plant is not endemic to Australia. Queensland."[7]
Chang, Mei-chen; Chiu, Lien-ching; Wei, Zhi; Green, Peter S. (2008) [1992]. "Oleaceae; Chionanthus ramiflorus". In Wu, Z. Y.; Raven, P. H. (eds.). Flora of China. Vol.15 (Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae). Beijing and St. Louis, MO: Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Retrieved 26 June 2013– via eFloras.
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