Isotype of Ampelocissus schliebeniiWerderm. [family VITACEAE ] Verified by Verdcourt, B., Ampelocissus africana(Lour.) Merr. [family VITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Cissus sp.
Ampelocissus africana
Vitis asarifolia
Ampelocissus volkensii
Ampelocissus schliebenii
Vitis grantii
Ampelocissus grantii
Ampelocissus asarifolia
Ampelocissus sp.
Ampelocissus granitii
Flora
Entry for AMPELOCISSUS africana (Lour.) Merr. [family VITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Botria africanaLour. [family VITACEAE], (1790). Fig. 105. [type as above]
Information
Climber, up to 6 m long; branches often reddish, glabrous or pubescent when young. Leaves with petiole 3–13 cm long; blade simple, ovate to suborbicular, 5–20 x 5.5–25 cm, cordate at the base, acute at the apex, entire to ± deeply 3–5-lobed, with serrate or crenate margins, glabrous to pubescent. Inflorescences lax to dense, 5–10 cm long, the ultimate cymes of flowers subcapitate; peduncle 2–6 cm long, with tendril; pedicels 1–2 mm long. Calyx entire or shallowly lobed, glabrous. Petals oblong-ovate, greenish, yellowish or reddish, c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Disk cup-shaped, about half the length of the ovary. Fruits red to purplish black, subglobose, c. 1 cm in diam. Seeds brown, 7–9 x 4–6 x 2.5 mm, shiny.
Range
S3 widespread in tropical Africa, southwards to Botswana and westwards to Senegal.
