Actinidia chinensis var. setosa

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Actinidia chinensis var. setosa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Actinidiaceae
Genus: Actinidia
Species:
A. chinensis
Variety:
A. c. var. setosa
Trinomial name
Actinidia chinensis var. setosa
H.L.Li
Synonyms [1]
  • Actinidia setosa(H.L.Li) C.F.Liang & A.R.Ferguson

Actinidia chinensis var. setosa, also known as Taiwanese kiwifruit, [2] is a sub-species of Actinidia chinensis , a flowering plant in the Chinese gooseberry family Actinidiaceae. The taxon is native to Taiwan. [1]

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Taxonomy

The taxon was first formally described in 1952 by Hui-lin Li, based on a specimen collected by Ernest Henry Wilson collected in October 1908 from Alishan, Taiwan. [3] Li distinguished Setosa due to its thinner, relatively larger and much narrower leaves, which always had pointed apices, and because specimens of the plants consistently showed coarse hairs on the upper surface of leaves. [4] : 40  In 1985 the taxonomy of Actinidia was revised by Chou-Fen Liang and A. R. Ferguson, who raised the taxon to species level, naming it Actinidia setosa. [5] In the 2007 edition of the Flora of China , the taxon name was revised again, returning the preferred binomial nomenclature to Actinidia chinensis var. setosa. [6] [1]

Phylogenetic analysis has shown that Actinidia chinensis var. setosa is more closely related to Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa than to Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis. [7]

Habitat

The species is a liana, and grows in temperate biomes. The subspecies is endemic to Taiwan. [1] The taxon grows in mountain forests, between a height of 1,300–2,600 m (4,300–8,500 ft) above sea-level. [6]

Hybridisation

The taxon can form hybrid forms with Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa. [6] While Actinidia chinensis var.chinensis and Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa form hybrids in the wild due to overlapping ranges in central south China, this does not occur for Actinidia chinensis var. setosa, due to its wild range being restricted to Taiwan. [4] : 49–51 

Domestication

A cultivar of Actinidia chinensis var. setosa called No. 9, collected from Ma Mountain in Taichung County, is being investigated for potential cultivation as a commercial species. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Actinidia chinensis var. setosa H.L.Li". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  2. 1 2 Hui-Na CHOU; Cheng-Chu NEE; Andi Shau-Mei OU; Tse-Heng CHOU; Chia-Chen CHIEN (2008). "Characterization of the physico-chemical and antioxidant properties of Taiwanese kiwifruit (Actinidia setosa)" (PDF). Botanical Studies . 49 (3): 215–224. ISSN   1817-406X. Wikidata   Q100529977. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2017.
  3. ↑ Li, Hui-Lin (1952). "A taxonomic review of the genus Actinidia". Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 33 (1): 1–61. doi:10.5962/P.333934. ISSN   0004-2625. JSTOR   43786583. Wikidata   Q100559822.
  4. 1 2 Ferguson, A. R. (1990). "Botanical Nomenclature: Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa, and Actinidia setosa". In Warrington, I. J.; Weston, G. C. (eds.). Kiwifruit Science and Management. Auckland: New Zealand Society for Horticultural Science. pp. 36–57. ISBN   0-908596-28-6.
  5. ↑ Liang, C.-F.; Ferguson, A. R. (1985). "Revision of the infraspecific taxa of Actinidia chinensis Planch". Guihaia. 5: 71–72.
  6. 1 2 3 Wu, Zh.Y.; Raven, P. H.; Hong, D.-Y., eds. (2007). "1. ACTINIDIA Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2, 439. 1836" (PDF). Flora of China . 12: 334–355.
  7. ↑ Haifeng Lin; Ling Jiang; Fuquan Zhang; Di Bai (21 October 2019). "Assembly and phylogenetic analysis of the complete chloroplast genome sequence of Actinidia setosa". Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources. 4 (2): 3679–3680. doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1678423. ISSN   2380-2359. PMID   33366140. Wikidata   Q104579682.


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