Vasilis Teodoridis:
Oleaceae | Ligustrum
11. Ligustrum compactum (Wallich ex G. Don) J. D. Hooker & Thomson ex Brandis; Forest Fl. N. W. India. 310. 1874.
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Shrubs or small trees to 12 m; semievergreen. Branchlets terete; pubescent when young; glabrescent or velutinous. Petiole 0.5-2.5 cm; glabrous; puberulent or velutinous; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic; 5-15 x (2-)3-6(-8) cm; papery; glabrescent; sometimes midrib only puberulent adaxially; or velutinous; base rounded to cuneate; apex acute to long acuminate; primary veins (6-)9-15 on each side of midrib; slightly prominent. Panicles usually terminal; 7-20 x 7-16(-24) cm; rachis angular; particularly in fruit. Flowers subsessile. Calyx 1-1.5 mm. Corolla 3.5-5 mm; tube ca. as long as lobes. Stamens reaching apex of corolla lobes; anthers 1-2.5 mm. Fruit blue-black or black; ellipsoid or subglobose; 7-10 x 4-6 mm; usually slightly curved.
Valleys; 600-3400 m. Hubei; Sichuan; Xizang; Yunnan [India; Nepal