Phellodendron amurense, Rupr.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 230

1. P. amurense Rupr. , Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Pétersb. 15: 353 (1857).

Tree up to 15 m, with deeply fissured, light grey, corky bark; branches forming a wide canopy. Leaflets 5-10 x 1-6-4-5 cm, 5-13, narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, longacuminate, shortly attenuate or rounded at base, shallowly crenulate, dark green and shining above, paler and almost glabrous beneath. Flowers in terminal panicles; sepals c. 1 mm, acute; petals 4-6 mm, oblong, cuculiate, densely pubescent within. Fruit c. 8 mm in diameter. Cultivated for ornament and occasionally for timber in S.E. Europe. [Bu Rm.) (N.E. Asia.)