别名：水黄扬;黄心柳;华蜡树;光叶小蜡;冬青树;冬青;茶叶篷落子;山雪子;水蜡树;小白腊;亮叶小蜡树;水腊;茶叶树;墨怀芭;腊树;华南小蜡;华腊树;山蜡树;水蜡;山紫甲树;雪梅;小腊;水黄杨;山指甲;小叶女贞;水狗骨;土茶叶;蚊仔树;小刀伤;小实女贞;蚊子花;转椒子;水白蜡;小蜡树;满地红;青皮树;千张树;小腊树;Chinese privet;

科名：木犀科 Oleaceae

属名：女贞属 Ligustrum

《中国植物志》第61卷158页
  19. 小蜡（植物名实图考）　黄心柳（云南），水黄杨（湖北），千张树（四川）
  Ligustrum sinense Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 1: 19. 1790, ed. Willd. 23. 1793; DC. Prodr. 8: 294. 1844; Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris ser. 2, 2: 36 1879, excl. specim. korea; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. 26: 92. 1889; Diels in Bot. Jahrb. 29: 533. 1900; Schneid. Ill. Handb. Laubh. 2: 801, f. 502 m-n, 504 k-l, 505 a-d. 1911; Rehd. in Sargent, Pl. Wils. 2: 605. 1916 et Bibl. Cult. Trees & Shrubs 572. 1949; Mansf. in Bot. Jahrb. 59, Beibl. 132: 60. 1924; Merr. in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. n. ser. 24, 2: 307. 1935; Hand. -Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7: 1010. 1936; 陈嵘, 中国树木分类学 1026, 图911. 1937; 中国高等植物图鉴 3: 362, 图4677. 1974; R. Kiew in Blumea 24: 149. 1978; M. C. Chang & B. M. Miao in Investigat. Stud Nat. 6: 74, pl. 7, 1-2. 8. 1986; 云南植物志 4: 640. 1986. ——L. calleryanum Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris ser. 2, 2: 35. 1879. ——L. stauntoni DC. Prodr. 8: 294. 1844; Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris ser. 2, 2: 37. 1879, excl. syn. Phlyarodoxa leucantha Moore.——L. deciduum Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26: 90. 1889. ——L. sinense var. stauntonii (DC.) Rehd. in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. 2: 913. 1900 et in Sargent, Pl. Wils. 2: 606. 1916; Schncid. Ill. Handb. Laubh. 2: 801, f. 502 o-p, 504 m-n, 505 g-l. 1911; Mansf. in Bot. Jahrb 59, Beibl. 132: 61. 1924; Hard.-Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7: 1010. 1936; 陈嵘, 中国树木分类学 1027. 1937; Y. C. Yang in Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China Bot. Ser. 12. 118. 1939; M. C. Chang & B. M. Miao in Investigat. stud. Nat. 6: 79, pl. 7, f. 3-8. 1986. ——L. sinense var.? Diels, l. c. 29: 533, 1900. ——L. sinense var. nitidum Rehd. in Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 4: 1700. 1915 et in Sargent, Pl. Wils. 2: 606. 1916. ——L. microcarpum Kanehira & Sasaki in Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formos. 21: 146. 1931; 台湾植物志 4: 141, 图942. 1978. ——L. nokoense Masamune & Mori in Journ. Soc. Trop. Agr. 4: 191. 1932, "nokoensis". ——L. shakuroense Kanehira, Formos. Trees rev. ed. 620, f. 576. 1936. ——L. microcarpum var. shakaroense (Kanehira) Shimizu & Kao in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 20: 69. 1962. ——L. pricei auct. non Hayata 1915: Mansf. l. c. 59, Beibl. 132: 56. 1924.

《Flora of China》 Vol. 15 (1996)
Ligustrum sinense  Loureiro
小蜡   xiao la
Shrubs or small trees 2-4(-7) m, deciduous. Branchlets terete, villous, pubescent, pilose, puberulent, to glabrescent. Petiole 2-8 mm; leaf blade ovate, oblong, elliptic to lanceolate, or suborbicular, 2-7(-13) × 1-3(-5.5) cm, densely villous to sparsely pubescent or glabrous, papery to somewhat leathery, base cuneate to subrounded, apex acute to acuminate, sometimes obtuse and retuse; primary veins 4-6(or 7) on each side of midrib, impressed or plane adaxially, somewhat raised abaxially. Panicles terminal or axillary, 4-11 × 3-8 cm, with or without leaf at base. Pedicel 1-5 mm. Calyx 1-1.5 mm, glabrous or pubescent. Corolla 3.5-5.5 mm; tube slightly shorter than lobes. Stamens reaching apex of corolla lobes or exceeding that; anthers ca. 1 mm. Fruit subglobose, 5-8 mm in diam.
Mixed forests, valleys, along streams, thickets, woods, ravines; 200-2700 m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Vietnam]