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Lonicera confusa DC.

Caprifoliaceae · China South-Central, Hainan +5

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Lonicera confusa DC.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Sweet) DC.

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About the genus · Lonicera

Honeysuckles are arching shrubs or twining vines in the genus Lonicera of the family Caprifoliaceae. The genus includes 158 species native to northern latitudes in North America, Eurasia, and North Africa.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Honeysuckle", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 104 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 104 of the 104 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast, Nepal, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam · introduced: Cape Verde, Mauritius, Réunion, New Caledonia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker22.458, 113.033 · in the densest population, 60 records (58% of those in range)
Kew's description“climber” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 104 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 50 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 18 km away. 21 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 104 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 104 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Lonicera 87 in the reference

Lonicera acuminata Lonicera acuminata Fragrant Grove Honeysuckle Photo: CC BY, Rick Chou Lonicera alberti Caprifoliaceae Lonicera albiflora Lonicera albiflora White honeysuckle Photo: CC BY, Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）Lonicera alpigena Lonicera alpigena Alpine honeysuckle Photo: CC BY-SA, Emanuele SantarelliLonicera altmannii Lonicera altmannii Caprifoliaceae Photo: CC BY, Dmitry BoldyrevLonicera arborea Lonicera arborea Caprifoliaceae Photo: CC BY, Santiago Martín-BravoLonicera arizonica Lonicera arizonica Arizona honeysuckle Photo: CC BY, Adrienne van den Beemt Lonicera biflora Caprifoliaceae Lonicera caerulea Lonicera caerulea Blue honeysuckle Photo: CC BY, evgeniq_benihanovLonicera canadensis Lonicera canadensis American fly-honeysuckle Photo: CC BY, Tom NortonLonicera caprifolium Lonicera caprifolium Perfoliate honeysuckle Photo: CC BY, Марина ДавлетшинаLonicera caucasica Lonicera caucasica Caprifoliaceae Photo: CC BY, Наталья Пикалова all 88 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Caprifolium confusum; Lonicera confusa var. glabrocalyx; Lonicera dasystyla; Lonicera multiflora; Lonicera telfairii and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Lonicera japonica Andrews is an older name of this species, not Lonicera japonica, a species of the reference; Lonicera periclymenum Lour. is an older name of this species, not Lonicera periclymenum, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Caprifoliaceae
Described by
DC.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +4
Wild records
104 in range · 50 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 7272667 is Lonicera confusa (Sweet) DC.; the page links Kew's Lonicera confusa DC., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22104 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 24 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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