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Cissampelos mucronata

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Name

Identification
Cissampelos mucronata A.Rich. [family MENISPERMACEAE ] (stored under name); Cissampelos pareira Welw. [family MENISPERMACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cissampelos aristolochiaefolium
  • Cissampelos aristolochiaefolia
  • Cissampelos convolvulacea
  • Cynoctonum apiculatum
  • Cissampelos macrostachys
  • Cissampelos vogelii
  • Cissampelos comata
  • Cissampelos zairensis
  • Cissampelos mucronata
  • Cucculus arbiculatus
  • Tinospora bakis
  • Cissampelos pareira
  • Cissampelos apiculata
  • Cissampelos rigidifolia
Common name
  • (Brin/Seleki) kanu étuku (K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • blosubu (JB) grôtubo (K&A) (SENEGAL, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ka nufalut (JB; K&A) xa nufalut (K&A) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • kagonora (K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA (Fogny)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • é gonnora (JB) ku al isil (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • orédia de ratiu = ear of the rat (JB) (SENEGAL, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Cissampelos mucronata A. Rich. [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
Cissampelos mucronata A. Rich. [family MENISPERMACEAE], in Fl. Seneg. Tent. 1: 11 (1831); Diels in E.P. IV. 94: 300 (1910); F.W.T.A. 1: 75 (1927) & ed. 2, 1: 75 (1954); T.T.C.L. 326 (1949); Troupin in F.C.B. 2: 250, tab. 22 (1951); Cufodontis in B.J.B.B. 24, suppl.: 114 (1954). Type: Senegal, Walo, 1830, Perrottet (P, lecto.!, BM, iso.!)
Cissampelos pareira (A. Rich.) Engl. var. mucronata [family MENISPERMACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 181 (1895); Dur. & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 1(2): 51 (1898)
Cissampelos pareira Engl. subvar. crassifolia [family MENISPERMACEAE], in E.J. 26: 394 (1899), pro parte
Cissampelos pareira Diels var. pachyphylla [family MENISPERMACEAE], in E.P. IV: 301 (1910); T.T.C.L.: 326 (1949)
Cissampelos pareira (Engl.) Engl. var. crassifolia [family MENISPERMACEAE], in Z.A.E.: 211 (1911)
Cissampelos pareira [family MENISPERMACEAE], [sensu Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 46 (1868), pro parte, non L.]
Information
Liane with woody rootstock; branchlets hairy-pubescent to subtomentose. Leaves subpeltate, with petioles 2–4.5 cm. long and inserted 0.5–3 mm. above the base of the blade; blade ovate-heartshaped, broadly or narrowly cordate at base, normally obtuse or somewhat rounded and mucronulate at apex, 4–12 cm. long, 4–13 cm. wide, tomentellous or puberulous or glabrescent on both sides with a bright grey or yellowish indumentum; basal nerves 5–7, palmate. Male inflorescences of corymbose cymules clustered 3–6 together and either axillary or arranged in false racemes 5–15 cm. long; pedicels 1–2 mm. long. Male flowers with 4–5 sepals 1–1.5 mm. long and 0.7–1 mm. wide, hairy-pubescent outside; corolla cup-shaped, 1–1.5 mm. long and in diameter, spreading after flowering; synandrium 6–10-locular, 1–1.5 mm. long. Female inflorescences 5–16 cm. long; bracts accrescent, often longly mucronulate. Female flowers with sepal 1.5 mm. long and 1 mm. wide, pubescent; petal 0.7 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, glabrous; carpel 1–1.2 mm. long, glabrescent. Drupes 0.4–0.7 mm. long, 0.3–0.5 mm. wide, pubescent.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K3, 5, 6; T1–3, 5–7; Z from Senegal eastwards to Ethiopia and southwards to South West Africa, the Transvaal and Natal
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Uasin Gishu District Kipkarren, Dec. 1931 (fl. buds), Brodhurst-Hill 662!KENYA Kisumu, Feb. 1915 (♀ fl. & fr.), Dummer 1789! & 1854!;KENYA Masai District Mara Masai Reserve, Telek river, Sep. 1947 (♂ fl.), Bally 5318!TANGANYIKA Singida District Iwumbu River, Aug. 1937 (♂ fl.), B. D. Burtt 767!;TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts. Bahati, Apr. 1935 (♂ fl.), E. M. Bruce 1053!TANGANYIKA Iringa, June 1936 (♂ fl.), Emson 535!UGANDA Bunyoro District Mutunda, Mar. 1943 (♀ fl. & fr.), Purseglove 1323!UGANDA Kutwi between Entebbe and Butiaba, Dec. 1909, Mearns!;UGANDA Mengo District Kyagwe, Namanve Swamp, Mar. 1952 (♀ fl. & fr.), Eggeling 210 in F.D. 465!ZANZIBAR Mwero Swamp, Oct. 1930 (♂ fl.), Vaughan 1604!

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