Geniostoma ligustrifolium

{{Short description|Species of plant}}

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| image = Geniostoma_ligustrifolium.jpg

| genus = Geniostoma

| species = ligustrifolium

| authority = A.Cunn.

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Geniostoma ligustrifolium,{{cite web |url=http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/publications/NZ%20Vascular%20Plant%20list%202006.pdf |title=New Zealand indigenous vascular plant checklist |date=July 2006 |author=Peter J. de Lange, John W. D. Sawyer & Jeremy R. Rolfe |publisher=New Zealand Plant Conservation Network }}{{cite web |url=http://web.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/science/about/departments/sbs/newzealandplants/seed-plants-flowering/find-by-north-&-south-islands/loganiaceae-strychnine-family.cfm |work=Flowering seed plants: North and South Islands |title=Hangehange, pāpā, privet leaf |publisher=University of Auckland |access-date=March 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009071056/http://web.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/science/about/departments/sbs/newzealandplants/seed-plants-flowering/find-by-north-%26-south-islands/loganiaceae-strychnine-family.cfm |archive-date=October 9, 2012 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.terrain.net.nz/friends-of-te-henui-group/table-1/hange-hange.html |title=Hangehange (Geniostoma ligustrifolium) |work=T.E.R:R.A.I.N. |date=June 21, 2011 |access-date=March 4, 2012}} commonly known as hangehange, is a species of plant in the Loganiaceae family (syn., Geniostoma rupestre var. ligustrifolium).{{cite journal |author=H. E. Connor & E. Edgar |year=1987 |title=Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986 |journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=115–170 |doi=10.1080/0028825X.1987.10409961|doi-access=free |bibcode=1987NZJB...25..115C }} It is endemic to New Zealand, where it is found on the North Island, and in Marlborough at the northern tip of the South Island. Other common names are {{lang|mi|pāpā}} and privet leaf. A shrub common on forest margins, to {{convert|4|m}} tall. It is popular as a garden specimen.