Lonicera rupicola Hook.F. & Thomson

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs, deciduous, erect or procumbent, to 2.5 m tall, sometimes only 10-20 cm tall at high elevations. Bark splitting. Branches with solid pith. Winter buds with several obtuse scales. Young branches white lanate or subglabrous, sometimes minutely glandular hairy; often leaves dropping at apex and leaving needlelike bare twigs. Leaves in whorls of 3 or opposite; petiole 1-3 mm; leaf blade linear-lanceolate to oblong, 0.5-3.7 × 0.1-1 cm, abaxially white lanate, sparsely pubescent, or glabrous, adaxially glabrous or rarely minutely glandular hairy, base cuneate to subcordate, margin revolute, apex acute to obtuse and slightly mucronate. Inflorescences axillary, paired flowers at bases of young branches; peduncle 0-3 mm; bracts, bracteoles, and margins of sepals minutely puberulent and glandular; bracts leaflike, linear-lanceolate, exceeding ovary; bracteoles cupular, sometimes lobed or rarely completely separate, ca. 1/2 as long as or equaling ovary. Neighboring 2 ovaries free, ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Sepals narrowly lanceolate to ovate-triangular, 2.5-3 mm. Flowers fragrant. Corolla white or pink to purple-red, tubular-funnelform; tube 8-10 mm, outside often puberulent and minutely glandular hairy, inside pubescent and glandular at base; lobes spreading, ovate, 2-4 mm. Stamens up to middle of corolla tube or slightly exceeding corolla tube, longer than style. Ovary usually 3-locular. Berry red, ellipsoid, ca. 8 mm; seeds few, brownish, ellipsoid, compressed, ca. 4 mm. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Aug-Oct.
Life form -
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 2.5
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Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
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Germination treatment stratification
Minimum temperature (C°) -18
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Images

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Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:149064-1
WFO ID wfo-0001224196
COL ID 3VZFH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Devendraea rupicola Lonicera rupicola Lonicera thibetica Caprifolium rupicola Lonicera rupicola var. thibetica Lonicera rupicola var. rupicola Lonicera rupicola subsp. thibetica

Lower taxons

Lonicera rupicola var. minuta Lonicera rupicola var. syringantha