Lonicera_hypoleuca_2-06082024 © OBG
Lonicera_hypoleuca_3-06082024 © OBG
Lonicera_hypoleuca_4-06082024 © OBG
Lonicera_hypoleuca_5-06082024 © OBG
Lonicera_hypoleuca_6-06082024 © OBG
Lonicera_hypoleuca_7-06082024 © OBG
Lonicera_hypoleuca-06082024 © OBG
Deciduous . Erect , woody shrub ; up to 2 m tall , with spreading branches . Stems ± angular , pubescent with glandular and eglandular hairs , or glabrous to sparsely pubescent , getting glabrous when mature , reddish brown ; branching from the base , young branches pilose and glandular-hairy . Leaves opposite , simple , 10–22 × 7–16 mm , ± thick , broadly ovate to obovate or broadly oblong , rounded at the base , obtuse tip , entire margins , densely hairy and glandular on both sides , grey-green above , pale-grey below ; petiole 1-3 mm , slightly clasping at base . Inflorescences borne in pairs , on short axillary peduncles , terminal ; bracts oblong-lanceolate , longer than calyx lobes , connate ; bracteoles fused into a very hairy cup . Flowers orange-yellow , large , showy , sweetly scented ; calyx tubular , 5-lobed above ; corolla 2-lipped , gibbous at the base , glandular-pubescent . Fruit berries , 3–4 mm in diameter , globose , fleshy , ± connate at the base , glandular hairy , half encircled by the cup-like bracteoles , red when mature . (Ref . Flora
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Caprifolium hypoleucum (Decne.) Kuntze
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Yellow Himalayan Honeysuckle
People of the Al Hajar mountain claim that goats graze the foilage, whereas birds prefer the orange ripen berries. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman: with a complete checklist of vascular plant species. Sultan Qaboos University – Academic Publication and Outreach Department. P.O Pox (17) Postal Code (123), Muscat, Al khoudh, Sultanate of Oman. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
