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 Wisteria sinensis var. sinensis ≡ Millettiasinensis (Sims) Benth., Pl. Junghuhn. [Miquel] 2: 249 (1852) (as M. “chinensis”) ≡ Rehsoniasinensis (Sims) Stritch, Phytologia 56(3): 183 (1984) = Wisteriaconsequana Sabine ex Loudon, The Gardener’s Magazine 2: 422 (1827) [Glycinesinensis was cited]. = Wisteriapraecox 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.

ComptonJA (2015b) Wisteriasinensis on the slow boat from China: The journey of Wisteria to England.Botanical Magazine32(3–4): 248–293. https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12112