Editing Syringa (section)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Stockholm-lilac.jpg
|image_caption = ''Syringa vulgaris'',<br />common lilac
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Syringa
|authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
|synonyms_ref = <ref name="WFO">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-4000037351 |title= ''Syringa'' L. Sp. Pl. : 9 (1753) |date= 2022 | website=World Flora Online |publisher= World Flora Consortium |access-date=10 December 2022 }}</ref>
|synonyms = *''Lilac'' <small>Mill.</small>
*''Liliacum'' <small>Renault</small>
*''Busbeckia'' <small>Hécart, [[nom. inval.]]</small>
*''Ligustrina'' <small>Rupr.</small>
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'''''Syringa''''' is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of [[flowering plant|flowering]] [[woody plant]]s in the olive family or [[Oleaceae]]<ref name="WFO"/> called '''lilacs'''. These lilacs are native to woodland and scrub from southeastern [[Europe]] to eastern [[Asia]], and widely and commonly cultivated in [[temperate zone|temperate areas]] elsewhere.<ref name=fe>Flora Europaea: [http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Syringa&SPECIES_XREF=&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= ''Syringa'']</ref><ref name=foc>Flora of China: [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=132143 <big>丁香属</big> ding xiang shu ''Syringa'']</ref><ref name=fop>Flora of Pakistan: [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=132143 ''Syringa'']</ref><ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?11814 ''Syringa''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121023752/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?11814 |date=21 January 2009 }}</ref>

The genus is most closely related to ''[[Ligustrum]]'' (privet), classified with it in Oleaceae tribus Oleeae subtribus Ligustrinae.<ref name=oxford>University of Oxford, Oleaceae information site: [http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/fraxigen/fraxinus/oleaceae.html New classification of the Oleaceae]</ref>

Lilacs are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of some moth species, including lilac leaf mining moth,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lilac leaf mining moth / RHS Gardening |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/lilac-leaf-mining-moth |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=www.rhs.org.uk |language=en-gb}}</ref> [[Sphinx ligustri|privet hawk moth]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Privet Hawk-moth |url=https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/privet-hawk-moth |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=butterfly-conservation.org |language=en}}</ref> [[copper underwing]], [[scalloped oak]] and [[Svensson's copper underwing]].