长果猕猴桃 chang guo mi hou tao

Type: China. Guangxi: Guilin, research orchard of Guangxi Institute of Botany, Sep 2001, R. G. Li 0108 (fr.) (holotype, IBK).

Validating Latin diagnosis: that of "Actinidia longicarpa" (R. G. Li & M. Y. Liang, Guihaia 23: 198. 2003).

Climbing shrubs, deciduous, large. Branchlets velutinous, glabrescent, lenticels subconspicuous; second-year branches glabrous, lenticels subconspicuous; pith white, laminate. Petiole 3.5-6 cm, velutinous, glabrescent; leaf blade ovate to orbicular, 6.2-19 × 5.4-11.5 cm, papery, abaxially stellate tomentose, glabrescent, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, apex shortly caudate or acuminate. Inflorescences 1-7-flowered; peduncle ca. 1.2 cm; pedicel 0.9-2 cm, velutinous. Flowers pink. Sepals 3-6, ovate, ca. 6 mm, velutinous. Petals 5, pink, or upper part white and lower part red, narrowly ovate, 1.4-1.7 cm. Ovary oblong, whitish tomentose. Fruit oblong, 2-4 cm, densely tomentose, with persistent reflexed sepals or not. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Oct.

● Guangxi (Longsheng or Ziyuan).

Introduced from Longsheng or Ziyuan Xian in 1981, this species is cultivated in the research orchard of the Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guilin. The name was not validly published by Li and Liang in 2003 because no type was indicated (Vienna Code, Art. 37.1). "Actinidia rubrafilmenta" [sic] (R. G. Li & J. W. Li, Guihaia 23: 199. 2003) also belongs here but was not validly published for the same reason.