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Cissampelos apiculata

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Identification
Isotype of Cissampelos apiculata Hochst. [family MENISPERMACEAE ] Verified by Troupin,G., 1954 Cissampelos mucronata A.Rich. [family MENISPERMACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cissampelos mucronata
  • Cissampelos pareira
  • Cissampelos apiculata

Flora

Entry for CISSAMPELOS Pareira Linn. [family MENISPERMACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 9, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CISSAMPELOS Pareira Linn. [family MENISPERMACEAE], Sp. 1473;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 100. Hook. and Thoms! Fl. Ind. 1. p. 198.
CISSAMPELOS apiculata Hochst. [family MENISPERMACEAE], ! Walp. 5. p. 17.
Information
voluble, pubescent or densely tomentose; leaves reniform or cordate, mucronulate, pubescent; male cymes pedunculate, much branched; racemes of female flowers elongated, with large, leafy, cordate bracts; drupes hispid. Very variable in the amount of its pubescence, &c. The Natal specimens examined have cordate-reniform leaves, pubescent on the upper and densely velvetty on the lower surface. The number of anther lobes varies in the same cyme from 4–8. The corolla is 4 toothed. The sepals hairy, obovate, with inflexed points.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Port Natal, Krauss (232)! Gueinzius! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.)

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