光萼小蜡 guang e xiao la

Ligustrum myrianthum Diels, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 533. 1900; L. bodinieri H. Léveillé; L. groffiae Merrill.

Branchlets, inflorescence rachis, and abaxial surface of leaf blade densely covered with rusty or yellow-brown soft or minutely hirsute hairs, rarely glabrescent. Leaf blade elliptic- lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, leathery. Panicles axillary, not leafy at base. Calyx glabrous. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Sep-Dec.

* Woods or thickets on slopes, in ravines, or along streams; 100-2700 m. Fujian, Gansu (Wen Xian), Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan.