LONICERA NUMMULARIIFOLIA

Family and Genus:- See- CAPRIFOLIACEAE/Sect. CAPRIFOLIUM

Common Names:- Oriental honeysuckle

Homotypic Synonyms:- Caprifolium nummulariifolium.

Meaning:- Lonicera (L) For Adam Lonitzer (1528-86) German physician and

botanist.

Nummulariifolia (L) With circular, coin-like leaves.

General description:- Erect shrub or small tree.

Stem:-

1) Up to 2-5 m.

Leaves:-

1) 1.5-3 cm, short-petiolate, broadly elliptical to obovate or soborbicular, puberulent.

Flower:-

1) 10-18 mm, short-pedunculate, in axillary pairs.

a) tube, shorter than the limb.

Fruit:-

1) Berries, free, subglobose, crowned by a small, persistent calyx, yellowish when

ripe.

key features:-

1) Corolla, 10-18 mm.

2) Flowers, in axillary pairs.

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Habitat:- Rocky limestone slopes, mostly in open coniferous woodland and by

mountain roads. 800-1600 m.

Distribution:- Peloponnisos and mainland Greece northwards, fairly rare and

scattered. - Also in Cyrenaica; widespread in SW Asia. Rare on Crete, known from

only a few scattered locations.

Flowering time:- End of Apr to June.

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