Lonicera ligustrina Wall.

Species

Angiosperms > Dipsacales > Caprifoliaceae > Lonicera

Characteristics

Shrubs, evergreen, semievergreen, or deciduous, 1.5-2.5(-5) m tall. Winter buds with several pairs of acute scales. Young branches with stiff and upwardly curved hairs. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 0.4-8 × 0.2-1.5 cm, leathery or papery, abaxially sometimes with minute black glands, adaxially usually shiny, glabrous or with sparse short hairs and reddish glandular hairs, midvein slightly impressed, flat or raised, sometimes stiffly hairy, base rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate to obtuse, sometimes mucronate. Inflorescences axillary, paired flowers; peduncle to 5 mm, pubescent; bracts lanceolate, 1.5-7 mm; bracteoles cupular, completely enclosing paired ovaries, sparsely glandular hairy. Neighboring 2 ovaries free. Calyx cupular, forming a collarlike emergence at base, overlapping apex of bracteoles; lobes ovate, glandular ciliate, apex obtuse. Corolla greenish yellow to white or occasionally purple-red, funnelform, 4-12 mm; tube shallowly gibbous at base, inside villous, outside glandular; lobes almost regular, ovate, 1-2 mm, apex obtuse. Anthers exserted. Style exserted, villous at base; stigmas capitate, hemispherical. Fruit purple, red, or white, ± translucent, globose, 4-8 mm in diam.; seeds brownish, ovoid or subglobose, sometimes compressed, 1-2 mm, smooth. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Aug-Dec. 2n = 18, 22.
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 2.5
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

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Uses material medicinal
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Germination duration (days) 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
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Images

Lonicera ligustrina unspecified picture

Distribution

Lonicera ligustrina world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:148886-1
WFO ID wfo-0001290593
COL ID 3VZB5
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INPN ID 998051
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Synonyms

Lonicera wightiana Lonicera buxifolia Lonicera missionis Lonicera wightianum Lonicera ligustrina Lonicera ligustrina var. ligustrina Xylosteon ligustrinum Lonicera ligustrina subsp. ligustrina Caprifolium ligustrinum

Lower taxons

Lonicera ligustrina var. yunnanensis Lonicera ligustrina var. pileata