Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Xingshan, Hubei
Many valuable medicines are produced in Hupei, particularly in the Shih-nan Prefecture and in the Fang and Hsing-shan districts.
1907, Report for the Year 1907 on the Chemical, Metal and Mining Industries of the Consular District of Lyons, →OCLC, page 232 more examples
In Hupeh this Rhododendron is quite rare and is not known to grow south of the Yangtsze River. It is only known to me from two or three localities in the Hsing-shan district where it grows in thin woods among rocks between 5000 and 7000 ft. altitude.
1924, Ernest Henry Wilson, “THE RHODODENDRONS OF HUPEH”, in Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, volume V, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17In my opinion the entity discussed above is better referred to S. pubescens than to S. sphenanthera, although in the degree of foliage-pubescence it is somewhat intermediate. In their original discussion of this variety, Rehder & Wilson list as a paratype Henry 6447 (GH, K), from Hsing-shan, western Hupeh.
1947, A. C. Smith, Sargentia: A Continuation of the Contributions from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, Mass., →OCLC, page 119
Origin
- Mandarin興山 /兴山
- EnglishHsing-shan
From Mandarin 興山 /兴山 (Xīngshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsing¹-shan¹.
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