Ligustrum quihoui

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Family:OLEACEAE
Species:Ligustrum quihoui Carrière
Common Name:Waxy leaf privet
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Growth Habit:Shrub
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:LIQU2
Plant Notes:Waxy leaf privet is an introduced semi-evergreen shrub in the Olive family (Oleaceae). It is native to China. In Alabama it has been collected from the Black Belt region in the central part of the state. It is sometimes cultivated and escapes to fence rows, vacant lots, and disturbed woodlands. It is also used as a rootstock for grafting other Ligustrum species, Syringa, and Osmanthus. It may “appear” from root sprouts around these cultivated species. Waxy leaf privet is a shrub reaching 9 feet in height. The young twigs are roundish, green or tan in color, and puberulent. The bark of older limbs and the trunk is smooth and tan-gray in color. The leaves are opposite, petiolate, entire, and lanceolate, elliptic, or obovate in outline. The upper side of the leaf is smooth and the midvein on the lower surface is pubescent. Each leaf has 2-5 pairs of lateral veins. Flowers are produced in subsessile verticil-like clusters in terminal panicles. The fragrant flowers are white to cream colored, but the pollen is a severe allergen. The calyx is glabrous and the corolla has four lobes, about as long as the tube. The fruit is a blue-black drupe. Waxy leaf privet fruit are consumed by many species of birds during the winter months, and the seed are deposited over a wide area.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
References:CHINA
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyOLEACEAE - Olive family
Genus Ligustrum
Species Ligustrum quihoui Carrière - Waxy leaf privet

Citation

Citation Ligustrum quihoui Carrière, Rev. Hort. 41: 377–378. 1869.
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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Ligustrum brachystachium Ligustrum brachystachium Decaisne, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., ser. 2. 2: 34. 1879. CHINA: Hubei:
Ligustrum quihoui var. brachystachium Ligustrum quihoui Carrière, var. brachystachium (Decaisne) Handel-Mazzetti, Symb. Sin. 7: 1011. 1936.Ligustrum brachystachium Decaisne 1879. 
Ligustrum vulgare var. barchystachium Ligustrum vulgare Linnaeus, var. barchystachium (Decaisne) Hoefker, Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 20: 224. 1911.Ligustrum brachystachium Decaisne 1879. 

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Montgomery, Sumter

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, TROY, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
UWAL0005474 Montgomery 15 May 2011 Diamond, Alvin R.
22122		 UWAL
Ligustrum quihoui Carriere
UWAL0005290 Sumter 25 Jul 2007 Keener, Brian R.
3775		 UWAL
Ligustrum quihoui Carr.
TROY000032422 Montgomery 15 May 2011 Diamond, Alvin R.
22122		 TROY
Ligustrum quihoui Carriere
ALNHS00003847 Montgomery 2 Jun 2016 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2283		 ALNHS
Ligustrum quihoui Carr.
TROY000028196 Sumter 25 Jul 2007 Keener, Brian R.
3775		 TROY
Ligustrum quihoui Carriere
ALNHS00003771 Montgomery 12 Apr 2016 Taylor, Chris T.
SP#2231		 ALNHS
Ligustrum quihoui Carr.
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