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Cissus lonicerifolia

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Name

Identification
Cissus cornifolia (Baker) Planch. [family VITACEAE ] (stored under name); Cissus lonicerifolia C.A.Sm. [family VITACEAE ] Rhoicissus unifoliolata Planch. [family VITACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cissus cornifolia
  • Rhoicissus unifoliolata
  • Cissus lonicerifolia

Flora

Entry for Cissus cornifolia Bak. Planch. [family VITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 439, (1966) Author: H. Wild and R. B. Drummond
Names
Cissus cornifolia Bak. Planch. [family VITACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 5, 2: 492 (1887). Gilg & Brandt in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 46: 480 (1912). — Gilg & Fr. in R.E.Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 134 (1914). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 27 (1949). — Suesseng. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20d: 261 (1953). — Wild, Guide Fl. Vict. Falls: 151 (1953). — -Williamson, Useful Pl. Nyasal.: 35 (1955). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 679 (1958). — Dewit, F.C.B. 9: 518 (1960). — White, F.F.N.R.: 230 (1962). Syntypes from Nigeria, Sudan and Uganda.
Vitis cornifolia Bak. [family VITACEAE], in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 390 (1868). Types as above.
Cissus marlothii [family VITACEAE], sensu Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 409 (1916).
Cissus lonicerifolia C.A.Sm. [family VITACEAE], in Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: xx, 475 (1932). — O. B. Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 52 (1952). Type from the Transvaal.
Information
Erect or sometimes semiscandent shrub; stern and branches cylindric; young shoots often ferruginous-tomentose becoming glabrescent when adult, but sometimes almost glabrous; tendrils occasionally present. Leaves simple, appearing after the flowers; petiole 2–7 mm. long; leaf-lamina up to 7·8 × 5 cm., narrowly elliptic to elliptic, acute to obtuse at the apex, dentate at the margin, cuneate, rounded or occasionally cordate at the base; stipules 2–5 × 2–3 mm., oblong to triangular, caducous. Cymes leaf-opposed; peduncle 4–9 cm. long, pubescent to glabrescent; pedicels 2 mm. long, lengthening to 5 mm. in fruit, glabrous; bracts and bracteoles up to 2 mm. long, pubescent to glabrous. Flower-bud 2 mm. long, glabrous. Calyx 1 mm. long, subentire, glabrous. Ovary glabrous; style 0·5 mm. long; stigma subcapitate. Fruit purple-black, 10 × 8 mm., ovoid. Seed 1, 9 × 5 mm., smooth with dorsal crest.
Habitat
Found in all types of woodland
Range
Throughout tropical Africa
Altitude range
from coast to 1800 m.
1800
0
Distribution
Mozambique M Magude, between Maéle and Mapulanguene, fr. 30.xi.1944, Mendonça 3163 (LISC).Mozambique GI Mapai, fr. 3.xi.1944, Mendonça 2729 (LISC).Mozambique MS Chironda Búzi, fl. 19.ix.1946, Simão 927 (LM; SRGH).Mozambique T Maravia, between Fíngoè and Chicoa, fl. & fr. 25.ix.1942, Mendonça 395 (LISC).Mozambique Z Namagoa, fl. & fr. ix.1945, Faulkner P.83 (COI; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Nuanetsi Distr., Tswiza, fr. 1.xi.1955. Wild 4700 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Umtali, Commonage, fl. 5.x.1948, Chase 1618 (BM; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Matopos Research Station, fr. 12.xii.1951, Plows 1373 (SRGH).Zambia S Mazabuka, fl. & fr. 11.x.1930, Milne-Redhead 1251 (K; PRE).Zambia E Lundazi R., fr. 19.xi.1958, Robson 674 (K; SRGH).Zambia W Chilanga, fl. viii.1929, Sandwith 31 (K).Botswana SE from Mahalapye to 64 km. north, fl. & fr. 14.x.1954, Story 4836 (PRE; SRGH).Mozambique N Mutuál, fl. 16.ix.1953, Gomes e Sousa 4116 (COI; K; LMJ; PRE).Malawi S Mlanje, Tuchila plateau, fl. & fr. xi.1933, Tophan 937(FHO).Zimbabwe N Mtoko Distr., fl. 14.ix.1953, Phelps 60 (SRGH).Zambia N Lake Mweru, fr. 12.xi.1957, Fanshawe 4009 (FHO; K; NDO).Botswana N Matetsi, fl. ix.1949, Miller 927 (PRE).Zimbabwe C Poole Farm, Hartley, fr. 12.x.1947, Hornby 2934 (SRGH).

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