中文名（Chinese Name）：香荚蒾
学名（Scientific Name）：Viburnum farreri Stearn
英文名（English Common Name）：Culver's root
别名（Chinese Common Name）：野绣球、香探春
异名（Synonym）：Viburnum fragrans Bunge
科属（Family & Genus）：忍冬科（Caprifoliaceae）荚蒾属
形态特征（Description）：落叶灌木，高达5米；当年小枝绿色，近无毛，二年生小枝红褐色，后变灰褐色或灰白色。冬芽椭圆形，顶尖，有2-3对鳞片。叶纸质，椭圆形或菱状倒卵形，长4-8厘米，顶端锐尖，基部楔形至宽楔形，边缘基部除外具三角形锯齿，幼时上面散生细短毛，下面脉上被微毛，后除脉腋集聚簇状柔毛外均无毛，侧脉5-7对，直达齿端，连同中脉上面凹陷，下面凸起，小脉不明显或两面略凹陷；叶柄长 (1-) 1.5-3厘米，幼时上面边缘被纤毛。圆锥花序生于能生幼叶的短枝之顶，长3-5厘米，有多数花，幼时略被细短毛，后变无毛，花先叶开放，芳香；苞片条状披针形，具缘毛；萼筒筒状倒圆锥形，长约2毫米，萼齿卵形，长约0.5毫米，顶钝；花冠蕾时粉红色，开后变白色，高脚碟状，直径约1厘米，筒长7-10毫米，上部略扩张，裂片5 (-4) 枚，长约4毫米，宽约3毫米，开展；雄蕊生于花冠筒内中部以上，着生点不等高，花丝极短或不存在，花药黄白色，近圆形；柱头3裂，不高出萼齿。果实紫红色，矩圆形，长8-10毫米，直径约6毫米；核扁，有1条深腹沟。花期4-5月。
分布（Distribution）：产甘肃、青海、新疆等地，生于海拔1650-2750米的山谷林中。
用途（Use）：花于早春开放，为北方园林绿化中的佳品。
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 19 Page 571, 585, 587
Viburnum farreri Stearn, Taxon. 15: 22. 1966.
香荚蒾 xiang jia mi| Adoxaceae  | Viburnum
Lonicera mongolica Gmelin; Viburnum farreri var. stellipilum D. Z. Ma & H. L. Liu; V. fragrans Bunge (1833), not Loisel (1824).
Shrubs, deciduous, to 5 m tall. Bark gray-brownish. Branchlets of current year green, subglabrous; branchlets of previous year red-brownish, later gray-brownish or gray-whitish, terete, glabrous, with sparse, dispersed, small, rounded lenticels. Winter buds ellipsoid, with 2 or 3 pairs of separate scales; scales reddish brown, ciliate, apex acute. Leaves always opposite, not clustered at apices of branchlets; stipules absent; petiole purplish, robust, (1-)1.5-3 cm, adaxially pubescent on margin when young; leaf blade purplish green when young, elliptic or rhombic-obovate, 4-8 × 1-2.5 cm, papery, abaxially slightly pubescent on veins, adaxially sparsely pubescent with fine and short hairs when young, later glabrous on both surfaces but stellate-pubescent in axils of veins, midvein raised abaxially, lateral veins 5-7-jugate, pinnate, straight or slightly arched, branched, ending in teeth, raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, veinlets transverse, inconspicuous or slightly impressed on both surfaces, not lobed, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, without glands, margin triangular-serrate except at base, apex acute. Flowers appearing before leaves; inflorescence paniculate, at apices of short branchlets that can produce new leaves, 3-5 × 2.5-3.5 cm; rays opposite, decussate; first node of inflorescence with 2 rays, many flowered, sparsely pubescent when young, glabrescent, without large sterile radiant flowers; peduncles very short when flowers just open, later gradually elongated; bracts caducous, leaflike, reddish, linear-lanceolate, ciliate, subglabrous; bracteoles linear. Flowers on rays from 1st to 3rd orders, fragrant, sessile. Calyx reddish; tube tubular-obconical, ca. 2 mm, glabrous; lobes ovate, very small, ca. 0.5 mm, glabrous, apex obtuse. Corolla pink in bud, white when open, hypocrateriform, ca. 1 cm in diam., glabrous; tube 7-10 mm, slightly spreading in upper part; lobes spreading, broadly ovate, ca. 4 × 3 mm, apex rounded, margin entire. Stamens shorter than corolla, inserted above middle of corolla tube generally at different heights; filaments very short or absent; anthers yellow-whitish, subglobose, ca. 1.5 mm. Styles not exceeding calyx lobes; stigmas 3-lobed. Fruit initially turning yellow, maturing purple-reddish, oblong, 8-10 × ca. 6 mm, base rounded, apex rounded, glabrous; pyrenes compressed, oblong, ca. 7 × 5 mm, with 1 deep ventral groove, apex rounded. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Jul. 2n = 16*, 32*.
● Forests; 1600-2800 m. Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang; commonly cultivated in Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Qinghai, Shandong.
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