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Lonicera acuminata

Botanic Family

Caprifoliaceae

Author

Wallich

Common Names

• Dan hong ren dong (Pinyin)
• Ki Seroh (Sumatra)

Geographical Habitats

• S. Anhui
• Fujian
• SE. Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• W. Guizhou
• Henan
• Hubei
• NW Hunan
• Jiangxi
• S. Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Himalaya
• India
• Bali
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Myanmar
• Philippines

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• scrubland
• thickets
• montane areas
• streamsides. Flower stems & leaves used medicinally

Flowering Times

• May-Jul (China)
• Jan-Dec (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Nov (China)

Deciduous or semi-evergreen woody villous twining climber with hairy red-brown young branches & leaf-margins, hairy coriaceous leaves to 80mm x 40mm. Terminal or axillary cymes with 8mm pilose bracts and 2mm bracteoles, paired yellow-white flowers tinged red-purple to 24mm long, becoming yellow tinged orange or purple, slightly hairy outside, calyx green to 3mm long with hairy lobes. Corolla to 25mm, corolla lobes to 4mm across, fruit blue-black berry to 8mm diameter

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Bradshaw 1996
• GWC 1997
• FOC
• Chujian 2001
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Flora Malesiana
• JAA
• Fedde