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Cissampelos truncata

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Name

Identification
Cissampelos truncata Engl. [family MENISPERMACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Cissampelos torulosa E.Mey. ex Harv.&Sond. [family MENISPERMACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cissampelos truncata
  • Cissampelos torulosa

Flora

Entry for Cissampelos truncata Engl. [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 truncata Engl. [family MENISPERMACEAE], in E.J. 26: 398 (1899); Diels in E.P. IV. 94: 297 (1910); T.T.C.L.: 326 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Uluguru Mts., Stuhlmann 8831 (B, holo.!)
Information
Slender, somewhat woody liane; branchlets sparsely clothed with caducous yellowish-white hairs. Leaves with slender petioles 2.5–8 cm. long, sometimes ± densely whitish-pubescent towards apex, inserted 2 mm. at most from the base of the blade; blade ovate-triangular or sometimes reniform, truncate or somewhat rounded at base, obtuse to somewhat rounded and mucronate at apex, 2.5–6 cm. long, 3–8 cm. wide, membranous, very sparingly pubescent to glabrescent above, slightly pubescent at the base of the nerves beneath; basal nerves 3–5, palmate. Male inflorescences of axillary, generally solitary or paired, corymbose cymules not exceeding 5 cm. in length, or of cymules arranged in the axils of membranous bracts along an axis up to 10 cm. in length; peduncles 1–4 cm. long, filiform. Male flowers with glabrous sepals 1–1.5 mm. long; corolla cup-shaped, glabrous, sometimes incompletely connate, 0.7–1 mm. long; synandrium (5–) 6–8-locular, 0.8–1 mm. long. Female inflorescences, flowers and fruits unknown.
Range
DISTR. T3, 4, 6 known only from Tanganyika
Altitude range
900–2300 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA E. Usambara Mts., Bomole, July 1917 (♂ fl.), Zimmermann in A.H. 6405!;TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Mbisi, Apr. 1950 (♂ fl.), Bullock 2816!;TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., Oct. 1934 (♂ fl.), E. M. Bruce 74!
Notes
The specimen, Grote 3842 (Tanganyika, Amani), is placed under this species with doubt, on account of its small leaves, acuminate at apex and not exceeding 15 cm. in length.

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