Ligustrum quihoui
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Ligustrum quihoui , seldom German also called Quihouis privet , is a shrub from the genus of privet ( Ligustrum ) in the olive family . Its distribution area is in China and Korea.
description
Ligustrum quihoui is a deciduous, 1 to 3 meter high, broad-growing shrub with soft reddish-brown hairy shoots and thin, stiff, protruding branches. The leaves have a 0 to 5 millimeter long petiole. The leaf blade is simple, coarse, 1 to 4 seldom up to 5.5 centimeters long and 0.5 to 2 seldom up to 3 centimeters wide, elliptical to obovate, blunt with a pointed base. The upper side of the leaf is dark green, somewhat shiny and bare. Two to four, rarely five pairs of nerves, clearly visible on both sides of the leaves, are formed.
The flowers are up to 500 in narrow, loose, 4 to 15 seldom 22 centimeters long and 2 to 4 centimeters wide panicles . The single flowers are almost sessile. They have a 1.5 to 2 millimeter wide hairless calyx , a 4 to 5 millimeter wide corolla and a corolla tube of the same length as the corolla lobes. The stamens extend beyond the corolla lobes, the anthers are 1.5 millimeters long. The fruits are round, obovate or elliptical, 5 to 9 millimeters long and 4 to 7 millimeters wide, purple-black berries .
The species blooms from May to July, the fruits ripen from August to November.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 46.
Distribution and ecology
The natural range is in the temperate zone of Asia in the Chinese provinces of Anhui , Guizhou , Henan , Hubei , Jiangsu , Jiangxi , Shaanxi , Shandong , Sichuan , Xizang , Yunnan and Zhejiang and in Korea. The species grows in steppes and dry forests at altitudes of 100 to 2500 meters on dry to fresh, weakly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy, sandy-gravelly or sandy-loamy, nutrient-rich soils in light to partially shaded locations. It is sensitive to moisture, loves warmth and is moderately frost hardy.
Systematics and research history
Ligustrum quihoui is a kind from the genus of privet ( Ligustrum ) in the family of Oleaceae (Oleaceae), tribe Oleeae. The species was first described by Élie-Abel Carrière in 1869 .
use
Ligustrum quihoui is rarely used as an ornamental tree because of its decorative flowers .
proof
literature
- Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 372.
- Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 301 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods
- ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 372
- ↑ a b c Mei-chen Chang: Ligustrum quihoui in Flora of China. Volume 15, p. 301
- ^ Ligustrum quihoui at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ a b Ligustrum quihoui. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed February 12, 2012 .
Web links
- Ligustrum quihoui. In: The Plant List. Retrieved February 12, 2012 .