Key to Ligustrum
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(For a list of species in Ligustrum, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Anthers ±
acute 
Having a short-tapered, sharp tip, the sides convex or straight and converging at less than a right angle.
at tip, 2–4 mm;
style not
exserted 
Protruding out of surrounding structure(s) (e.g., stamens exserted from corolla).
from
tube;
corolla tube 2–3 × (± >)
lobes 
1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.
;
petiole 
Leaf stalk, connecting leaf blade to stem; sometimes more or less indistinct.
3–10 mm
..... L. ovalifolium 1' Anthers ±
obtuse 
Having a short-tapered, blunt tip or base, the sides convex or straight and converging at more than a right angle.
at tip, 1–2 mm; style exserted from tube; corolla tube ± < to ± > lobes; petiole 5–20 mm
2. Plant < 3 m;
leaf 
Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).
4–8(10) cm; petiole 5–12 mm;
blade 
Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.
ovate-elliptic to obovate; corolla tube ± >= lobes
..... L. japonicum 2' Plant < 10 m; leaf 6–10(12) cm, petiole 10–20 mm, blade ± widely
ovate 
Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.
; corolla tube ± <= lobes
..... L. lucidum
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