Lonicera dasystyla Rehder; L. multiflora Champion ex Bentham; L. telfairii Hooker & Arnott.

For description see under species complex. Distinguishing characters for this species are as follows: Stems grayish pubescent or glabrous. Leaves abaxially glabrous to pubescent without large sessile orange glands. Ovaries densely to sparsely hirsute or glabrous. Berries black. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Aug-Oct.

Mountain slopes, mixed forests, scrub, roadsides of plains, riversides; 300-800 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan [Nepal, N Vietnam].