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3. Ligustrum gracile Rehder in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 2: 602. 1916.

细女贞 xi nu zhen

Ligustrum compactum (Wallich ex G. Don) J. D. Hooker & Thomson ex Brandis var. glabrum (Mansfeld) Handel-Mazzetti; L. quihoui Carriere var. glabrum Mansfeld.

Shrubs deciduous, 0.5-3 m. Branchlets often puberulent. Petiole 1-8 mm, slender, glabrous; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, rarely elliptic-lanceolate, 1-4 (-8.5) cm × 3-8(-25) mm, papery, glabrous, abaxially glandular dotted, base cuneate or obtuse, apex acuminate or obtuse and mucronulate; primary veins 3-5(-7) on each side of midrib, obscure. Panicles terminal or axillary, 5-13 × 1.5-10 cm. Flowers subsessile. Calyx 1-1.5 mm, glabrous. Corolla 3-5.5 mm; tube ca. as long as lobes. Stamens approaching apex of corolla lobes; anthers 1.5-2.5 mm. Fruit blue-black, obovoid, 5-7 × 3-5 mm. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Aug-Nov. 2n = 46*.

* Thickets on slopes, flood lands; 800-3800 m. Sichuan, Yunnan.


 

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