Schisandra sphaerandra
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Editorial Note
Bean discussed this species beneath his account of Schisandra rubriflora (Bean 1981). We have moved Bean’s text, unaltered, into its own article pending a full revision of the genus. If you would like to sponsor a revision of Schisandra please contact the editors.
TC, December 2024.
From R. rubriflora and [S. grandiflora, S. incarnata] this differs in the narrower and shorter leaves, which are lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrow-oblong, and in the almost sessile anthers borne on a swollen receptacle. The flowers vary in colour, but are usually in some shade of red or magenta. Described in 1922 from specimens collected by Forrest in the Lichiang range of N.W. Yunnan, and by Schneider and Handel-Mazzetti in S.W. Szechwan. The S. grandiflora var. cathayensis of Schneider is mainly this species but partly S. incarnata.