《中国植物志》|| 虎耳草科 SAXIFRAGACEAE ||绣球组 Sect. 3. Hydrangea Maxim. ||莼兰绣球 Hydrangea longipes Franch.

35. 莼兰绣球（植物分类学报） 莼兰（四川宝兴），长柄绣球（中国植物图谱）
Hydrangea longipes Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris ser. 2, 8: 227. 1885; Rehd. in Sargent, Pl. Wils. 1: 33. 1911 et in Journ. Arn. Arb. 9: 51. 1928; Hu in Hu ＆ Chun, Icon. Pl. Sin. 3; 40. pl. 140, 1933; 陈嵘, 中国树木分类学282. 1937; Chun in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 3 (2): 157. 1954. p. p. ; 中国高等植物图鉴2; 108. 图1946, 1972. ——H. longipes Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23: 273. 1887. ——H. aspera D. Don var. longipes (Franch.) Diels in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 29: 374. 1900. ——H. hemsleyana Diels op. cit. 23: 376. 1900. ——H. hemsleyana Diels var. pavonliniana Pampan. in Nouv. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 17: 284. 1910.
灌木，高1-3米；小枝圆柱形，淡黄色，被黄色短柔毛，老后树皮不剥落。叶膜质或薄纸质，干后常呈淡绿色，阔卵形、阔倒卵形、长卵形或长倒卵形，长8-20厘米，宽3.5-12厘米，先端急尖或渐尖，具阔短尖头，基部截平、微心形或阔楔形，两侧稍不等长，边缘具不整齐的粗锯齿，上面疏被糙伏毛，下面被稀疏、短而近贴伏的细柔毛，脉上的毛较密；侧脉6-8对，微弯，下面凸起，三级脉明显，横出，下面凸起，小脉稀疏网状，网眼不明显；叶柄长3-15厘米，被短疏柔毛。伞房状聚伞花序顶生，直径12-20厘米，顶端截平或稍拱，分枝较短，通常密集，紧靠，彼此间隔短，其长0.5-2厘米，极少超过2厘米，密被扁平、透明、披针状短粗毛；不育花白色，萼片4，倒卵形、阔倒卵形或近圆形，近等大，长1.3-2.2厘米，宽1-2.2厘米，先端圆，具小突尖或有时微凹，基部渐狭，具短爪，边全缘或具数小齿；孕性花白色，萼筒杯状，萼齿三角形，长约0.5毫米；花瓣长卵形，先端急尖，早落；雄蕊10枚，细小，不等长，短的略短于花瓣，长的长达5毫米，花药阔长圆形或近圆形；子房下位，花柱2，结果时长1-1.5毫米，外反。蒴果杯状，不连花柱长2-2.5毫米，宽2.5-3.5毫米，顶端截平；种子淡棕色，倒长卵形或狭椭圆形，偶有近圆形，扁平，具凸起的纵脉纹，两端具0.1-0.2毫米的短翅，先端的翅稍长，扁平，卵状三角形或狭三角形。花期7-8月，果期9-10月。
产河北、陕西、甘肃、河南、湖北、湖南、四川、贵州和云南等省区。生于山沟疏林或密林下，或较湿润的山坡灌丛中，海拔1300-2800米。模式标本采自四川宝兴。

《云南植物志》|| 绣球花科 Hydrangeaceae ||绣球属 Hydrangea Linn. ||莼兰绣球 Hydrangea longipes Franch.

16.莼兰绣球（植物分类学报）
长柄绣球（中国植物图谱）
Hydrangea longipes Franch. (1885); Rehd. in Sarg. (1911); p. p.; 图鉴 (1972)*; 中国植物志 (1995)*.
Hydrangea longipes Hemsl. (1887); H. aspera D. Don var. longipes (Franch.) Diels (1900); H. hemsleyana Diels (1900); H. hemsleyana Diels var. pavonliniana Pampan. (1910).
灌木，高1-3米。小枝淡黄色，圆柱形，被黄色短柔毛，树皮不脱落。叶薄纸质，宽卵形，宽倒卵形、长卵形或倒长卵形，长8-20厘米，宽3.5-12厘米，先端急尖或渐尖，基部截形，微心形或宽楔形，两侧不对称，边缘具不整齐粗锯齿，上面疏被糙伏毛，下面疏被近贴伏的细柔毛；侧脉6-8对，上面凹陷，下面凸出；叶柄长3-15厘米，疏被短柔毛。伞房状聚伞花序顶生，直径12-20厘米，顶端截平或微拱，分枝较短，密集，密被短粗毛。不孕花：白色，萼片4，倒卵形，宽倒卵形或近圆形，全缘或具小齿。长1-2厘米，宽0.8-1.8厘米，先端圆，具突尖或微凹，基部渐狭，具短爪，孕性花：白色，萼筒杯状，萼齿三角形，长约0.5毫米；花瓣长卵形，先端急尖，早落；雄蕊10，细小，不等长，花药长圆形或近圆形；子房下位，花柱2，结果时长1-1.5毫米，外反。蒴果杯状，长2-2.5毫米，宽2.5-3.5毫米，顶端截平。种子浅棕色，倒长卵形或狭椭圆形，稀近圆形，扁平，表皮具凸出的纵脉纹，两端具短翅。花期7-8月，果期9-10月。
产景东、贡山、德钦；生于沟边阔叶林，海拔1400-2100米。分布于陕西、甘肃、河南、湖北、湖南、四川、贵州。

《Flora of China》|| Saxifragaceae || Hydrangea ||莼兰绣球 Hydrangea longipes

26. Hydrangea longipes Franchet, Bull. Herb. Boissier. ser. 2, 8: 227. 1885.

莼兰绣球 chun lan xiu qiu

Shrubs 1-3 m tall. Branchlets yellowish to brown, terete, pubescent. Petiole 3-15 cm, sparsely pilose to subglabrous; leaf blade usually greenish on both surfaces when dry, lanceolate, oblong-ovate or -obovate, broadly ovate, or broadly obovate, 4-22 × 3-12 cm, membranous to papery, abaxially sparsely appressed pubescent, or densely tomentose-villous with hairs spreading, brown, longer, and thicker along secondary veins and especially midvein, adaxially sparsely strigose, secondary veins 6-8 on both sides of midvein, abaxially elevated, base broadly cuneate, truncate, or shallowly cordate, margin irregularly roughly serrate, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences corymbose cymes, 7-20 cm wide, apex truncate to slightly arcuate; branches short, densely shortly hairy, hairs thick. Sterile flowers with sepals 4, white, obovate, broadly so, or suborbicular, 0.8-2.2 × 0.9-2.2 cm, margin entire or few denticulate. Fertile flowers with calyx tube cupular; teeth triangular, ca. 0.5 mm. Petals white, oblong-ovate. Stamens 10, unequal; anthers broadly oblong to subglobose. Ovary inferior. Styles 2, usually recurved, 0.5-1.5 mm in fruit. Capsule cupular, 2.5-3.5 mm in diam., apex truncate. Seeds brownish, narrowly ellipsoid to oblong-obovoid, rarely subglobose, compressed, shortly winged at both ends; seed coat striate veined. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep-Oct.

* Dense to sparse forests or thickets along stream banks, in valleys, or on mountain slopes; 1300-2800 m. Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan.

One of the present authors (Bartholomew) believes that Hydrangea longipes var. longipes is not distinct from H. robusta and that var. fulvescens and var. lanceolata are not distinct from H. aspera.

《Flora of China》|| Saxifragaceae || Hydrangea ||绣毛绣球 Hydrangea longipes

26b. Hydrangea longipes var. fulvescens (Rehder) W. T. Wang ex C. F. Wei, Guihaia. 14: 116. 1994.

绣毛绣球 xiu mao xiu qiu

Hydrangea fulvescens Rehder in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 1: 39. 1911; H. fulvescens var. rehderiana (C. K. Schneider) Chun; H. rehderiana C. K. Schneider.

Leaf blade oblong-ovate or -obovate, broadly ovate, or broadly obovate, abaxially densely tomentose-villous, secondary veins and especially midvein with spreading, brown, long, thick hairs. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep-Oct.

* Dense to sparse forests along stream banks in valleys or on mountain slopes; 1500-2700 m. Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan.