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Tinospora caffra

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Identification
Desmonema schliebenii Diels [family MENISPERMACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Tinospora caffra (Miers) Troupin [family MENISPERMACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Desmonema gossweileri
  • Hyalosepalum caffirum
  • Desmonema caffrum
  • Tinospora tenera
  • Hyalosepalum pallido-aurantiacum
  • Desmonema pallido-aurantiaca
  • Desmonema schliebeni
  • Desmonema pallidoaurantiacum
  • Desmonema schliebenii
  • Desmonema mucronulatum
  • Desmonema caffra
  • Tinospora caffra
  • Chasmanthera unrecorded
  • Hyalosepalum caffrum
  • Tinospora pallido-aurantianum
  • Desmonema pallido-aurantiacum

Flora

Entry for Tinospora caffra (Miers) Troupin [family MENISPERMACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1956) Author: G. TROUPIN
Names
Tinospora caffra (Miers) Troupin [family MENISPERMACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 25: 137 (1955). Type: South Africa, Natal, Gerrard 1976 (K, holo.!, BM, iso.!)
Desmonema caffra Miers [family ], in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 20: 261 (1867); Diels in E.P. IV. 94: 156 (1910)
Desmonema mucronulatum Engl. [family ], in E. J. 26: 409 (1899); Uganda Check List: 66 (1935); T.T.C.L.: 327 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Mwanza District, Kagehi [Kayenzi], Fischer 70 (B, holo. †) & Fischer 69 (B, lecto.!)
Desmonema mucronulatum Engl. var. schweinfurthii [family ], in E.J. 26: 409 (1899); Uganda Check List: 66 (1935). Type: Sudan, Equatoria Province, Mt. Baginze [Bangenze], Schweinfurth III 70 (B, holo.!)
Desmonema schliebenii Diels [family ], in N.B.G.B. 13: 273 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 327 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Lindi District, Lake Lutamba, Schlieben 5838 (B, holo. †, P, lecto.!, G, iso.-lecto.!)
Hyalosepalum caffrum (Miers) Troupin [family MENISPERMACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 19: 431 (1949); F.C.B. 2: 230, tab. 20 (1951)
Information
Herbaceous or somewhat woody liane; stem verrucose with sometimes scaling bark. Leaves with petiole 2.5–10 cm. long; blade ovate, ovate-cordate or nearly round, cordate or rounded at base, abruptly apiculate and mucronate or subacuminate at apex, 2.5–8 cm. long, 1.5–7 cm. wide, glabrous. Male inflorescences usually of false racemes of cymules, sometimes panicled, 7–30 cm. long; pedicels 0.3–1 cm. long. Male flowers with triangular to subovate outer sepals 0.8–1.5 mm. long, the inner oblong to oblanceolate, 2–4 mm. long, 1–2 mm. wide; petals 6, the outer 1.5–3 mm. long, 1–2 mm. wide, the inner narrower; stamens 3, their filaments connate to apex, 1.5–3 mm. long. Female inflorescences 7–15 cm. long. Petals of ♀ flowers with a small membranous appendage, perhaps a staminode, at base; carpels 2–3 mm. long. Drupes 0.8–1.2 cm. long, 0.4–0.7 cm. wide.
Range
DISTR. U2–4; K3–5, 7; T1, 3, 5–7
Altitude range
350–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA S. Kavirondo District Kendu-Homa Point, Sept. 1933 (♂ fl.) Napier 5272!;KENYA Kwale District Taru, Sept. 1953 (♂ fl.), Drummond & Hemsley 4155!TANGANYIKA Ukerewe Island or area Mwanza-Musoma, Conrads 5145!TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa, Jan. 1935 (♂ fl.), H. E. Hornby 616!;TANGANYIKA Rungwe District without locality, 1911, Stolz 520!UGANDA Ankole District Bugamba, Apr. 1940 (♂ fl.), Eggeling 4224!UGANDA Elgon, Busano, Dec. 1936 (♂ fl.), Snowden 1034!;UGANDA Mengo District Buvuma Island, Mar. 1904, Bagshawe 658!
Distribution (external)
; Oubangui-Chari
the Sudan
Belgian Congo
Angola
the Rhodesias
Portuguese East Africa
the Transvaal
Notes
The species T. caffra is here treated in a wide sense—in other words the differences in leaf shape and development of the inflorescence seem not to be of taxonomic importance, but rather due to a somewhat moist and shady habitat. These morphological variations of the plant may well be no more than ecological adaptations of neither specific nor varietal significance.

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