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Adenia fruticosa

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Filed as Adenia fruticosa Burtt Davy subsp. trifoliata W.J.de Wilde [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
Holotype of Adenia fruticosa Burtt Davy subsp. fruticosa [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
Type of Adenia fruticosa W.J.deWilde ssp. simplicifolia [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
Holotype of Adenia fruticosa Burtt Davy subsp. trifoliotata W.J.de Wilde [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
Isotype of Adenia fruticosa Burtt Davy subsp. simplicifolia De Wild. [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
Isotype of Adenia fruticosa Burtt Davy subsp. simplicifolia W.J.de Wilde [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
Adenia fruticosa Burtt Davy [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
Isotype of Adenia fruticosa Burtt Davy subsp. fruticosa [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Adenia fruticosa W.J.deWilde [family PASSIFLORACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Adenia fruticosa

Flora

Entry for Adenia fruticosa [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Adenia fruticosa [family PASSIFLORACEAE]
Information
Shrub or shrubby tree to 6 m, glabrous; main stem mostly thick, soft-woody, branched or not, up to 2 x 0,6 m; branches shrubby or lianoid, provided with tendrils. Leaves some grey-green or glaucous, punctate or not be­neath, simple or 3-5-foliolate, in outline ovate to suborbicular, base (sub)cordate, 1-8 X 1-8 cm, (1-) 3-5-plinerved; petiole (0,3-) 1-5 cm; leaflets (or lobes) orbicular, ovate or obovate, base rounded to attenuate, apex subacute to broadly rounded, rarely retuse, 1-6 X 1-4 (-6) cm, ± penninerved; margin entire; petiolule 0-5 (-7) mm. Gland at blade-base 1, on a fleshy ± upward curved median lobelet at the top of the petiole; no other glands present. Stipules narrowly triangular, c. 0,5 mm. Inflorescences either solitary in the leaf-axils, or grouped in short-shoots, peduncled up to c. 1 cm, 2-5-flowered in cj, 1-3-flowered in 9; tendrils 0; sterile tendrils 3-12 cm, sometimes breaking off and leaving a thorn-like structure. Male flowers campanulate, including the 0,5-5 mm long stipe 9—17 mm; hypanthium cup-shaped, 1-2,5 x 2,5-4,5 mm; calyx-tube 0; sepals lanceolate, obtusish, 7-9 (-10) mm, (sub)entire; peta
Use
1. Adenia fruticosa Bunt Davy, Fl. Transv. 1: 36; 221 (1926); Bremekamp, Vege-tationsbilder 23, 3: 6, pi. 18 (1932); Lieben-berg in Bothalia 3: 538, 528, 532, pi. 1, 2 (1939); Letty, Wild Flow. Transv. 225 (1962); De Wilde in Meded. Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen 71-18: 69 (1971). Type: Trans­vaal, Pole Evans H15723 (K, holo.!; PRE!).
Range
A species of dry savanna and bushveld, on sandy or granitic soils; 100-1400 m. Distributed in Transvaal and Natal, also in Rhodesia.

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