Vitis silvestrii explained

Vitis silvestrii (known locally as hu bei pu tao, which means Hubei grape) is a species of polygamo-dioecious plant in the grape family native to the forested slopes of western Hubei and southern Shaanxi in China from 300 to 1200 meters above sea level. Its flowers appear in May, males having abortive pistils

Vitis silvestrii should not be confused with the very similarly named V. sylvestris Bartram^[1] (Eurasian wild grape), which some botanists and taxonomists believe to be synonymous with V. vinifera ssp. silvestris, the dioecious, ancestral form of V. vinifera.^[2] The name silvestrii was chosen to honor the Reverend, or Père, C. Silvestri, an Italian collector of plants specializing in phanerogams,^[3] and the collector of this species (on July 3, 1907).

Notes and References

1.  A description of V. sylvestris was first published in Medical Repository 1: 21. 1804. Web site: Name - !Vitis sylvestris Bartram . Tropicos . Missouri Botanical Garden . Saint Louis, Missouri . May 23, 2010.
2. Ahmet Güner . Gábor Gyulai . Zoltán Tóth . Gülsüm Asena Başlı . Zoltán Szabó . Ferenc Gyulai . András Bittsánszky . Luther Waters Jr. . László Heszky . 2008 . Anadolu Univ J Sci Technol . Grape (Vitis vinifera) seeds from Antiquity and the Middle Ages Excavated in Hungary - LM and SEM analysis . https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20121023113640/http://w3.mkk.szie.hu/dep/genetika/pdf/Guner%20et%20al%202008%20(inpress).pdf . dead . October 23, 2012 . May 23, 2010 .
3. Web site: Collector, C. Silvestri . May 23, 2010 . C. Silvestri ~ Dates fl.: ca. 1905-1913 ~ Specialties: Phanerogams ~ Countries: Italy, China ~ Member of: G. Giraldi & C. Silvestri ~ Note: Hupeh [Hubei] (col. ±1910-1912): A (280), E, FI (orig.), W (175 phan.).