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Lonicera involucrata
Lonicera involucrata
Banks ex Spreng.
Family:
Caprifoliaceae
twinberry honeysuckle,
more...
honeysuckle, bearberry honeysuckle
Max Licher
General Description
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Plant
: Shrub, erect, 6-30 dm; herbage with stalked glands, sparsely hairy
Leaves
: simple, opposite, entire, short-petioled; 3-12 cm; petiole 2-10 mm; blade elliptic to ovate, base rounded or tapered, tip acute to acuminate
INFLORESCENCE
: flowers paired; peduncles 12-32 mm, axillary, subtended by conspicuous involucre of 2 pairs of bracts; outer bracts opposite flowers, 7-12 mm, widely ovate, generally acute; inner bracts 4-8 mm, alternate flowers, deeply 2-lobed, truncate, densely glandular
Flowers
: calyx tube fused to ovary, calyx limb 0; corolla 12-18 mm, ± cylindric to narrowly bell-shaped, ± yellow, hairy, lobes ± 2 mm, subequal, slightly spreading, tube pouched at base; ovary chambers 2-3, ovaries of a flower pair free
Fruit
: berry, round, 6-10 mm, black, in enlarged, purple or red, spreading or reflexed involucre
Misc
: Moist places; < 2900 m.
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