Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Fraxinus uhdei
fresno, madre de agua, tropical ash, shamel ash, evergreen ash
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Scrophulariales
Family
Oleaceae
Genus
Fraxinus
Species
uhdei
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Fraxinus americana var. uhdei Wenz.; in Wallander, E. 2008 as Fraxinus cavekiana Standl. & Steyerm.
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1985
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Davidse, G. Sousa S.M., Knapp, S., & Chiang Cabrera, F. (2009) Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. Fl. Mesoamer. 4(1): 1-855.
- Green, P.S. (1994) A revision of Chionanthus (Oleaceae) in S. America and the description of Priogymnanthus gen. nov. Kew Bull. 49(2): 261–286.
- Wallander, E. (2008) Systematics of Fraxinus (Oleaceae) and evolution of dioecy. Pl. Syst. Evol. 273(1-2): 25–49.
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
- Motooka, P. (1987) El Papel de los herbicidas en el manejo de tierras para conservación Investigación Botánica y Manejo en Galápagos. Memorias.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Fraxinus uhdei", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=3951. Accessed 7 May 2025.