10.000 Ginkgo L.

Dioecious tree; bark light grey to greyish brown, longitudinally fissured, especially in older trees; crown conical initially, finally broadly ovoid; long branchlets grey; short branchlets darker with dense elliptic leaf scars; winter buds yellowish-brown. Leaves with parallel veins, pale green turning bright yellow in autumn; those on long branchlets divided by a deep apical sinus into 2 lobes, each further dissected; those on short branchlets with margins undulate, apex notched. Male flowers catkin-like; female long-pedicelled bearing 2 ovules. Seeds elliptic, yellow, malodorous when ripe.

Derivation of name: from a Chinese name

Worldwide: 1 species in China, a remnant of a geological group, no longer known in the wild.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.