Entry for CISSUS Capensis Willd. [family VITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 248, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CISSUS CapensisWilld. [family VITACEAE], Sp. 1. p. 655;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 629.
Vitis capensisThunb. [family VITACEAE], Fl. Cap. p. 212. E. & Z.! 427.
Information
young twigs and leaves rufo-pubescent, older glabrous; stems terete, striate; leaves on long petioles, broadly cordato-reniform, very obtusely 5- angled, repando-dentate, three-nerved at base and penni-nerved, obtuse, coriaceous; stipules ovate; inflorescence thyrsoid, densely tomentose, the peduncles elongate, with several lateral and one terminal sub-capitate cymes; flowers woolly. Leaves 2 inches long, and 3 broad, truncate or concave at base, between cordate and reniform, sinuous and obscurely toothed, or in β. deeply lobed and cut nearly to the base. All the young parts and the inflorescence are covered with short, red-brown, woolly hairs.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In mountain ravines. Eastern side of Table Mountain, and in Uitenhage, E. & Z.! Drege, &c.
