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Cissampelos hirta

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Holotype of Cissampelos hirta Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE]
Filed as Cissampelos hirta Klotzsch [family MENISPERMACEAE]
Type of Cissampelos tamnifolia Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE]
Type? of Cissampelos tamnifolia Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE]
Type of Cissampelos hirta Klotzsch [family MENISPERMACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Cissampelos hirta Klotzsch [family MENISPERMACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cissampelos tamnifolia
  • Cissampelos owariensis
  • Cissampelos hirta

Flora

Entry for Cissampelos hirta Klotzsch [family MENISPERMACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 150, (1960) Author: G. Troupin
Names
Cissampelos pareira subvar. hirta Klotzsch Engl. [family MENISPERMACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 26: 395 (1899). Type as for C. hirta.
Cissampelos pareira var. klotzschii Dur. & Schinz [family MENISPERMACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 1, 2: 51 (1898). Type as for C. hirta.
Cissampelos tamnifolia Miers [family MENISPERMACEAE], Contr. Bot. 3: 185 (1871). Type: Mozambique, Delagoa Bay, Forbes 11 (K, holotype).
Cissampelos hirta Klotzsch [family MENISPERMACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 174 (1861). — Diels in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 94: 291 (1910) non Miers (1866). Type: Mozambique, Inhambane, Peters (B, holotype).
Information
Slender liane with branchlets striate, glabrescent. Leaf-lamina 2–4.5 x 3–5 cm., ovate-subtriangular, broadly cordate, sometimes deeply cordate, subobtuse or subtruncate at the base, acute and slightly mucronate at the apex, puberulous or glabrescent on the lower side, except the nerves, sparsely puberulous on the upper side, nerves 5–7-palmate, petiole 1–1.5 cm. long. Male inflorescences of corymbose cymes, solitary or 2–4-fasciculate, sometimes arranged in false axillary racemes 3–6 cm. long; pedicels slender, c. 1 mm. long. Male flowers with 4 sepals, obovate-unguiculate, c. 1 x 0.7 mm., glabrous, with black spots when dry; synandrium 4 (6)-locular. Female inflorescences often solitary, of 5–10-flowered cymules arranged on an axis 4–10 cm. long; bracts triangular, ciliate. Female flowers with sepals 1.2–1.5 x 1 mm., ovate-elliptic, glabrous; carpels 0.7 mm. long. Drupe 5–6 x4–5 mm., compressed, sparsely hairy or glabrescent.
Range
Not known elsewhere.
Distribution
Mozambique M Delagoa Bay, 1893, Junod 478 (BR; P); Delagoa Bay, fl. 30.xi.1897, Schlechter 11548 (BM; K; PRE).Mozambique GI Massinga, fl. ix.1946, Gomes e Sousa 1851 (BR; K).Mozambique MS Manica, x.1945, Pedro 172 (PRE).

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