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The genus Ligustrum is in the family Oleaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ligustrum

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Ligustrum angustum B.M.Miao	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum australianum F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum caeruleum Descourt. ex Decne.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum compactum (Wall. ex G.Don) Hook.f. & Thomson ex Brandis	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Ligustrum confusum Decne.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum cumingianum Decne.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum delavayanum Har.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum expansum Rehder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum gamblei Ramamoorthy	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum glomeratum Blume	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum gracile Rehder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum henryi Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum × ibolium Coe ex Rehder	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum ibota Siebold	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum japonicum Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum leucanthum (S.Moore) P.S.Green	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum lianum P.S.Hsu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum lindleyi (Wall. ex G.Don) P.S.Green	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum liukiuense Koidz.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum lucidum W.T.Aiton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum mellosum Decne.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum micranthum Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum morrisonense Kaneh. & Sasaki	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum myrsinites Decne.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum nepalense Wall.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum novoguineense Lingelsh.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum obovatilimbum B.M.Miao	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum obtusifolium Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Ligustrum ovalifolium Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Ligustrum perrottetii A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum pricei Hayata	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum punctifolium M.C.Chang	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum × purpusii Hofker	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum quihoui Carrière	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum retusum Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum robustum (Roxb.) Blume	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Ligustrum rufum Nakai	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum salicinum Nakai	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum sempervirens (Franch.) Lingelsh.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum sinense Lour.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	3
Ligustrum stenophyllum Quisumb. & Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum strongylophyllum Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum tamakii Hatus.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum tenuipes M.C.Chang	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum tschonoskii Decne.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum undulatum Blume	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum × vicaryi Rehder	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum vulgare L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ligustrum xingrenense D.J.Liu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 200 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ligustrum. Of these 43 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 118 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ligustrum. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 200 species names for the genus Ligustrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	21.5%
◕	Synonym	150	75.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	7	3.5%

All names

The status of the 318 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ligustrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	50	15.7%
◕	Synonym	260	81.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	2.5%

Of the species names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 12 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 200 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ligustrum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	43	148	0	0	191	95.5%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	7	7	3.5%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Ligustrum is as follows: