Lonicera ligustrina

{{Short description|Species of honeysuckle}}

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|image = Lonicera ligustrina var. yunnanensis (Lonicera nitida) - Botanischer Garten, Dresden, Germany - DSC08938.JPG

|image_caption = Lonicera ligustrina var. yunnanensis Franch.

|genus = Lonicera

|species = ligustrina

|authority = Wall. (1824)Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 2: 179. 1824.

|subdivision_ranks = Varieties

|subdivision =

• Lonicera ligustrina var. ligustrina
• Lonicera ligustrina var. pileata {{small|(Oliv.) Franch.}}
• Lonicera ligustrina var. yunnanensis {{small|Franch.}}

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:148885-1 Lonicera ligustrina Wall.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 April 2024.

|synonyms = Xylosteon ligustrinum {{small|(Wall.) D.Don (1825)}}

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Lonicera ligustrina (女贞叶忍冬, nü zhen ye ren dong), the privet-like honeysuckle,{{cite journal |last1= Cleghorn |first1= Hugh F.C. |author-link1= Hugh Cleghorn (forester) |date= 1850 |title= On the Hedge Plants of India |url= https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03746605309467595 |journal= Transactions of the Botanical Society |volume= 3-4 |issue= |pages= 98 |doi= 10.1080/03746605309467595 |access-date= 15 April 2024}} is a species of honeysuckle found in the central and eastern Himalayas of Bhutan, India, Nepal, and in southern and central China. It grows as an evergreen, semi-evergreen, or deciduous shrub approximately 1.5-2.5 meters in height, with leathery or paper-like leaves 0.4-8 × 0.2-1.5 cm in size.