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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
Ligustrum angustum B.M.Miao	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum australianum F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum compactum (Wall. ex G.Don) Hook.f. & Thomson ex Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum confusum Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum cumingianum Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum delavayanum Har.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum expansum Rehder	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum gamblei Ramamoorthy	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum glomeratum Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum gracile Rehder	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum henryi Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum ibota Siebold	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum japonicum Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum leucanthum (S.Moore) P.S.Green	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum lianum P.S.Hsu	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum lindleyi (Wall. ex G.Don) P.S.Green	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum liukiuense Koidz.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum lucidum W.T.Aiton	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum micranthum Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum morrisonense Kaneh. & Sasaki	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum myrsinites Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum nepalense Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum novoguineense Lingelsh.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum obovatilimbum B.M.Miao	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum obtusifolium Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum ovalifolium Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum perrottetii A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum pricei Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum punctifolium M.C.Chang	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum quihoui Carrière	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum retusum Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum robustum (Roxb.) Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum salicinum Nakai	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum sempervirens (Franch.) Lingelsh.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum sinense Lour.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum stenophyllum Quisumb. & Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum strongylophyllum Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum tamakii Hatus.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum tenuipes M.C.Chang	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum tschonoskii Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum undulatum Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum vulgare L.	Accepted		WCSP
Ligustrum xingrenense D.J.Liu	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 178 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ligustrum. Of these 43 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 115 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 178 species names for the genus Ligustrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	24.2%
◕	Synonym	129	72.5%
◕	Unplaced	6	3.4%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 293 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ligustrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	58	19.8%
◕	Synonym	229	78.2%
◕	Unplaced	6	2.0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 10 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 178 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	126	0	0	169	94.9%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.1%
	Low confidence	0	1	6	0	7	3.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Ligustrum, are as follows: