''Geniostoma ligustrifolium'', commonly known as hangehange, is a species of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

in the Loganiaceae family (syn., ''Geniostoma rupestre'' var. ''ligustrifolium''). It is

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, where it is found on the

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, and in

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at the northern tip of the

South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...

. Other common names are ' and privet leaf. A shrub common on forest margins, to tall. It is popular as a garden specimen.

References

External links

* * Museum of New Zealan
Object: Hangehange, ''Geniostoma rupestre'' var. ''ligustrifolium'' (A.Cunn.) B.J.Conn; paralectotype of ''Geniostoma ligustrifolium'' A.Cunn.
ligustrifolium Flora of New Zealand Plants described in 1838 {{Gentianales-stub