Citharexylum ligustrifolium (Thur. ex Decne.) Van Houtte
First published in Nursery Cat. (Louis van Houtte) 1887: 53 (1887)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Ligustrum spicatum Jacques in Rev. Hort. (Paris) 1863: 339 (1863)
- Citharexylum spicatum (Jacques) Sprague in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1924: 146 (1924), nom. illeg.
- Lippia ligustrifolia Thur. ex Decne. in Fl. Serres Jard. Paris, sér. 2, 12: 11 (1877)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Ligustrum amurense Decne. in Ann. Gén. Hort. 22: 11 (1877), nom. illeg.
- Ligustrum multiflorum Jacques in Rev. Hort. (Paris) 1863: 339 (1863)
- Citharexylum bessonianum Tod. ex Sprague in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1924: 146 (1924), pro syn.
- Citharexylum pringlei Greenm. in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 41: 234 (1905)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 1935 | Pringle, C.G. [8932], Hidalgo | K000487034 | isotype | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images