PlantaeFabalesFabaceaeComptonJames A.SchrireBrian D.Könyves3KálmánForestFélixMalakasiPanagiotaSawai MattaphaSirichamornYotsawateThe Callerya Group redefined and Tribe Wisterieae (Fabaceae) emended based on morphology and data from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequencesPhytoKeys2662019125111210.3897/phytokeys.125.34877 Wisteriopsis kiangsiensis urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77198991-1 (Z.Wei) J.Compton & Schrirecomb. nov. ≡ Millettiakiangsiensis Z.Wei, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 23(4): 283 (1985). Type: China, Jiangxi Prov., Wuning, Y.G.Xiong 4143 (LBG, holo.); Paratype: China, Anhui, Qin Renchang [Ren-Chang Ching] 2881, elev. 250 m. 30 June 1925, “climber 7 m high”, PE00417692 (PE!, K!) ≡ Calleryakiangsiensis (Z.Wei) Z.Wei & Pedley, Flora of China 10: 184, t. 219 [8–15] (2010) = Millettiakiangsiensisf.purpurea Z.H.Cheng, J. Zhejiang Forest. Coll. 4: 70 (1987). (ZJFC, holo.). China, Zhejiang, Tonglu. This may represent a purple flowered variant of the species but we have not seen any material in order to verify this. Note.

This species described from Jiangxi [originally as Kiangsi] Province in south-eastern China, is closely allied to W.japonica. Characters that distinguish W.kiangsiensis from W.japonica are the evergreen leaves in W.kiangsiensis with 7–9 broadly ovate leaflets (vs. deciduous leaves with (7 –) 9–15, narrowly ovate-lanceolate leaflets in W.japonica). The flowers are white, frequently flushed with pale rose pink and 12–15 mm long in W.kiangsiensis, (vs. flowers yellowish-white, 6–12 mm long in W.japonica). Both species possess a conspicuous annulus of fine hairs at the mouth of the calyx and narrow lanceolate stipules that arise directly from a deltoid gibbosity positioned on the branch immediately subtending the leaf rachis.

Illustrations.

Wei and Pedley, Flora of China 10: 184, t. 219 [8–15] (2010). http://www.plantphoto.cn (In Home Page enter Calleryakiangsiensis).

Distribution.

China (Anhui, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang).

Habitat.

open sites clambering over scrub among woods and forests up to 500 m.