Common Name: HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY Habit: Subshrub to small tree or vine. Leaf: opposite, simple or compound; stipules generally 0. Flower: calyx tube fused to ovary, limb generally 5-lobed; corolla radial or bilateral, rotate to cylindric, generally 5-lobed; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, alternate corolla lobes; ovary inferior, 1--5-chambered, style 1. Fruit: berry, drupe. Genera In Family: 5 genera, 220 species: especially northern temperate. Note:Linnaea moved to Linnaeaceae; Sambucus and Viburnum to Adoxaceae. eFlora Treatment Author: Charles D. Bell, family description, key to genera Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: HONEYSUCKLE Habit: Shrub, twining to erect. Leaf: simple, entire, generally short-petioled; 1--2 pairs beneath inflorescence often fused around stem. Inflorescence: spikes, +- interrupted, on axillary peduncles or at ends of branches, or flowers paired on axillary peduncles and subtended by 0--3 pairs of bracts. Flower: calyx limb 0 or generally 5-toothed, generally persistent; corolla 5-lobed, +- bilateral, 2-lipped (upper 4-lobed), swollen at base on 1 side; ovary chambers 2--3. Fruit: berry, generally round; seeds generally > 2. Etymology: (Johann Lonitzer, German herbalist, physician, 1499--1569, and/or his son, Adam Lonitzer, German botanist, 1528--1586) Unabridged Note: According to Ferguson (1966 J Arnold Arbor 47:33--59), genus named "in honor of Johann Lonitzer, latinized Lonicerus, 1499--1569, a German herbalist and physician, not Adam Lonitzer, 1528--1586; see Linnaeus, Crit. Bot. 93 1737." In fact, although Linnaeus indicated in Critica Botanica (Hort translation, Ray Society, 1938, p. 76) that the genus Lonicera was named in honor of Johann Lonitzer, in Hortus Cliffortianus (1737; p. 58) he states "...Loniceram ab Adamo Lonicero, antiquo Botanico...". eFlora Treatment Author: Charles D. Bell & Lauramay T. Dempster Reference: Howarth & Donoghue 2006 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103(24):9101--9106
Lonicera subspicata Hook. & Arn.
NATIVE Habit: Generally twining or reclining on shrubs, 9--24 dm; herbage glabrous to puberulent. Leaf: generally 1--4 cm; blade base round or +- tapered, tip round or obtuse; upper pairs not fused around stem. Inflorescence: spike, long, interrupted, often +- glandular-hairy. Flower: corolla 8--12 mm, strongly 2-lipped, pale yellow, often hairy; stamens, stigma exserted. Fruit: +- 8 mm, red or yellow.
Citation for this treatment: Charles D. Bell & Lauramay T. Dempster 2012, Lonicera subspicata, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=31525, accessed on April 17, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 17, 2024.
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