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Privet genus

Published: 2024-12-23 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/12/23, Latin name: LigustrumL. English name: Privet introduction: evergreen, semi-evergreen or deciduous, trees or shrubs. Leaves simple opposite, entire, petiolate. Cymose panicles terminal and axillary. Flowers bisexual; Calyx bell-shaped, 4-toothed, irregularly cleft or truncate; Corolla white, subradiate, funnel-shaped or salverform, Corolla tube longer than lobes or subequal, lobes 4, valvate in buds; stamens 2, inserted near Corolla tube throat, enclosed or protruding, locule nearly extroverted.

Latin scientific name: LigustrumL.

English name: Privet

Brief introduction:

Evergreen, semi-evergreen or deciduous, trees or shrubs. Leaves simple opposite, entire, petiolate. Cymose panicles terminal and axillary. Flowers bisexual; Calyx bell-shaped, 4-toothed, irregularly toothed or truncate; Corolla white, subradiate, funnelform or salverform, Corolla tube longer than lobes or subequal, lobes 4, valvate in buds; stamens 2, inserted near Corolla tube throat, enclosed or protruding, locule nearly extroverted; ovary 2-loculed, 2 pendulous ovules per locule, style protruding or included, stigma 2-lobed. Drupe, seeds 1-4; seed coat thin, endosperm fleshy, cotyledons narrowly ovate, radicle short, upward.

About 45 species, distributed in Asia, Europe and Australia. There are about 29 species in China.

 
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