Wisteria floribunda (Willd) DC., Prodr. 2: 390 (1825), nom. cons. (Taxon 61(4): 882)

≡ Glycine floribunda Willd. Sp. Pl. 3(2): 1066 (1802). Type: Japan, Aoyama, Suma Kobe city, 10 May 1967, M.Hotta 16502 (K, neo.!, designated by Compton and Lack (2012)); (P, isoneo.!); (L, isoneo.!); (E, isoneo.!)

≡ Phaseoloides [ Phaseolodes] floribunda (Willd.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 202 (1891)

≡ Kraunhia floribunda (Willd.) Taub., Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(3): 271. (1894)

≡ Millettia floribunda (Willd.) Matsum., Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 16: 64 (1902)

≡ Rehsonia floribunda (Willd.) Stritch in Phytologia 56: 183 (1984)

= Wisteria macrobotrys Siebold ex Lemoine, Catalogue et Prix Courant no. 56: 5 (1869). Type: [Icon] Neubert Deutsches Gartenmagazin für Garten und Blumenkunde 23: 17 (1870), (lecto.!, designated by Compton and Thijsse (2015))

≡ Wisteria sinensis var. macrobotrys (Siebold ex Lemoine) Lavallée, Énum . Arbres: 65 (1877) ≡ Wisteria floribunda f. macrobotrys (Siebold ex Lemoine) Rehder & E.H.Wilson, Publ. Arnold Arb. 4: 513 (1916)

≡ Kraunhia floribunda var. macrobotrys (Siebold ex Lemoine) Nash, Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 20: 14 (1919)

≡ Wisteria floribunda var. macrobotrys (Siebold ex Lemoine) L.H.Bailey, Manual of Cultivated Plants ed. 1: 417 (1923).

= Wisteria multijuga Van Houtte, Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 19: 125 (1874). Type: [Icon] Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 19: 125 (1874) ≡ Glycine multijuga (Van Houtte) Clémenc ., Revue Horticole 46: 300 (1874), (lecto.!, designated by Compton and Lack (2012))

≡ Wisteria sinensis var. multijuga (Van Houtte) H.Jaeger & Beissn., Die Zierghölze der Gärten und Parkanlagen 425 (1889) ≡ Wisteria polystachios f. multijuga (Van Houtte) Beissn. Schelle & Zabel, Handbuch der Laubholz-Benennung 269 (1903).

Illustrations.

Siebold and Zuccarini in Flora Japonica 1: t. 44 (1839) as Wisteria chinensis; Compton and Thijsse in Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 32 (3-4): 350, Pl. 818, t. 2 & 3 (2015).

Distribution.

Korea; Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku).

Habitat.

Climbing over trees and shrubs in mixed evergreen and deciduous forest and in thickets at sea level to 1500 m.