Lonicera acuminata

Lonicera acuminata Wall., Fl. Ind. 2: 176–177 1824. (syn. Lonicera acuminata var. acuminata ; Lonicera acuminata var. depilata P.S. Hsu & H.J. Wang; Lonicera affinis var. angustifolia Hayata; Lonicera alseuosmoides Graebn.; Lonicera apodantha Ohwi; Lonicera buddleioides P.S. Hsu & S.C. Cheng; Lonicera fuchsioides Hemsl.; Lonicera giraldii Rehder; Lonicera henryi Hemsl. …..; Lonicera pampaninii H. Lév.; Lonicera transarisanensis Hayata; Lonicera trichosepala (Rehder) P.S. Hsu);

 

Common name: Vine Honeysuckle

Images by Nidhan Singh

 

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Scandent shrub. Branchlets with stiff brownish yellow hairs. Leaves opposite, lanceolate-oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate 7-11 x 3-4 cm across, margin ciliate, apex acuminate to mucronate, lateral veins 5-12 on both the sides of the mid vein, vein lets reticulate, base subcordate to rounded, hairy above and beneath, sometimes older leaves not hairy, petiole hairy about 0.5 cm long. Inflorescence axillary, terminal many flowered heads corymb like, also often axillary 2-flowered peduncles also clustered, on the upper part of the branchlets, floral leaves gradually reduced, the uppermost linear-lanceolate, bracteiform, bracts subulate, slightly longer or shorter than the calyx tube with stiff hairs, lobes lanceolate-ovate or linear lanceolate as long as tube, margin ciliate or glabrous. Corolla cream yellow to orange, with stiff hairs or glabrous outside, Corolla tube funnel shaped, lobes ovate, orbicular. Stamens 5, longer than the corolla, filament short stiff and hairy at the base, anthers about 5 mm long. Style about the same length as the stamens, hairy except the apex. Fruit bluish black about 5 mm in diameter. Seeds many ellipsoid.

(Attributions- Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India. & Kailash, B. R., UAS & ATREE, Bangalore, India.

From  India Biodiversity Portal )

 

 

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in Ritterhude, Germany in June’10;

yet another lonicera from my garden in Ritterhude – efloraofindia | Google Groups

  

Lonicera acuminata from Darjeeling for validation:: NS June 11 : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (5).

The photograph uploaded may be Lonicera japonica because in L. auminata the leaves are acuminate

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Yes .It is more near to Lonicera japonica.

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References:

The Plant List Ver.1.1  Tropicos  Flora of China  FOC illustration  FOC illustration2  Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal  Flowers of India  India Biodiversity Portal