Ligustrum microcarpum

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Ligustrum microcarpum
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Oleaceae
Genus: Ligustrum
Species: L. microcarpum
Binomial name
Ligustrum microcarpum
Kanehira & Sasaki

Ligustrum microcarpum is a species of Ligustrum (privet), endemic to Taiwan, where it is confined to high altitudes of over 2,400 m.[1] It is treated as a synonym of the Mainland Chinese Ligustrum sinense in the Flora of China and the Flora of Taiwan.[2][3]

Under the name L. sinense, Taiwanese plants are described by the Flora of Taiwan as a shrub or small tree growing to 7 m tall. The leaves are 3.5–8 cm long and 1.5–3 cm broad, thin textured, with an obtuse apex and an entire margin. The flowers are white, with four corolla lobes 2 mm long, produced in panicles 7–10 cm long; the fruit is globose, 6 mm diameter.[3][4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pan, F.J. (1998). Ligustrum microcarpum
  2. ^ Flora of China: Ligustrum sinense
  3. ^ a b Flora of Taiwan: Ligustrum sinense
  4. ^ Flora of Taiwan: Ligustrum sinense (continuation)