Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1057 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 477 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 724 [secondary reference]

• Type: Fraxinus excelsior L.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 454 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name of the ash-tree."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 685 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name of the ash-tree."

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 949, 950 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Oleaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 477-478 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Oleaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 302 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 344 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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