Ligustrum expansum Rehder

Shrubs ca. 3 m, deciduous. Branchlets and petiole sparsely puberulent, glabrescent. Petiole 0.5-1.2 cm; leaf blade oblong- lanceolate to elliptic, 2.5-12 × 1.5-5.5 cm, papery, glabrous or abaxially villous, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate. Panicles terminal, spreading, 10-18 × 8-16 cm; rachis pubescent. Flowers sessile or nearly so. Calyx ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Corolla salverform, 7-10 mm; tube 1.5-2 × as long as lobes. Stamens not exceeding corolla lobes; anthers ca. 2 mm. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, ca. 10 × 5 mm. Fr. Sep.

W Hubei

* Along streams; ca. 1300 m.

Ligustrum expansum is a plant species native to China and Vietnam. The Flora of China lists Ligustrum robustum subsp. chinense P.S.Green as a separate taxon, but more recent sources regard this name as a synonym of L. expansum. Combining the two listings yields a distribution within China including the Provinces of Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan.

扩展女贞（学名：Ligustrum expansum）是木犀科女贞属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的湖北等地，生长于海拔1,300米的地区，一般生于溪旁，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。