Wisteria sinensis var. sinensis

Compton, James A., Schrire, Brian D., Koenyves 3, Kalman, Forest, Felix, Malakasi, Panagiota, Sawai Mattapha, & Sirichamorn, Yotsawate, 2019, The Callerya Group redefined and Tribe Wisterieae (Fabaceae) emended based on morphology and data from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences, PhytoKeys 125, pp. 1-112 : 71

Wisteria sinensis var. sinensis

≡ Millettia sinensis (Sims) Benth., Pl. Junghuhn. [Miquel] 2: 249 (1852) (as M. " chinensis ")

≡ Rehsonia sinensis (Sims) Stritch, Phytologia 56(3): 183 (1984)

= Wisteria consequana Sabine ex Loudon, The Gardener’s Magazine 2: 422 (1827) [ Glycine sinensis was cited].

= Wisteria praecox Hand.-Mazz., Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math-Naturwiss. Kl. 58: 177 (1921). Type: China, Hunan, "frutex volubilis fl. intense rubroviolaceis (diary no. 2357.88) prope urbem Tschangscha [Changsha] in silvulis apertis reg. subtropicae inter viam militarum Hsingaipu [Xinkaipu] et fluvium [Xiangjian river], 100m.", legi 10 et 23 March 1918, Handel-Mazzetti 11678, WU0059306 (WU, lecto.!, designated by Compton (2015b)); WU0059305 (WU, isolecto.!); WU0059304 (WU, isolecto.!); WU19240004403 (WU, isolecto.!); Paratype: China, Hunan, "in monte Gu-schan, fl. rosei, prope urbem Tschangscha, 14 April 1918, elev. 150 m. (diary no. 2364), Handel-Mazzetti 11,623, WU0059304 (WU!).

Illustrations.

Compton in Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 32 (3-4): 283, Pl. 815, t. 1 & 2 (2015); Wei and Pedley, Fl. China 10: 188, t. 223 [1 - 5] (2010).

Distribution.

China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangxi, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang).

Habitat.

Climbing over trees and shrubs and along banks and over thickets 50 to 1800 m.