Lonicera etrusca, G. Santi

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 47

16. L. etrusca G. Santi , Viaggio Montam. 113 (1795).

Deciduous. Leaves 3-8 x 1 -5-5 cm, broadly elliptical or obovate, obtuse or subacute at apex, glaucous or whitish-green and usually puberulent beneath, those of the upper pair connate, of the next sessile or shortly petiolate. Inflorescences solitary or 2-3 together at ends of branches. Peduncle (10-)30-50(-55) mm. Corolla 3 - 5-4-5 cm, yellowish-white, often tinged with purple; tube c. I) times as long as limb, narrow. Berries red. S. Europe. Al Bu Co Cr Ga Gr He Hs It Ju Lu Sa Si Tu [Rs (K)]. L. stabiana Guss. ex C. A. Pasquale , Rendic. Reale Accad. Sci. (Napoli) 14: 142 (1875), described from S. Italy, differs in its evergreen leaves, shortly pedunculate inflorescences and yellow berries. It has been treated as a variety of both 15 and 16 but may be a hybrid of one of these species with 14.