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Cissus succulenta

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Identification
Cissus succulenta Burtt-Davy [family VITACEAE ] (stored under name); Cissus cactiformis Gilg [family VITACEAE ] Vitis succulenta Galpin [family VITACEAE ] Cissus quadrangularis L. [family VITACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cissus quadrangularis
  • Vitis succulenta
  • Cissus cactiformis
  • Cissus succulenta

Flora

Entry for Cissus quadrangularis L. [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 quadrangularis L. [family VITACEAE], Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 2: 124 et Mant. Pl.: 39 (1767). — Planch. in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 5, 2: 509 (1887). — Gilg & Brandt in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 46: 481 (1912). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 1, 1: 70, fig. 56 (1915). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 475 (1932). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 28 (1949). — Suesseng. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20d: 262 (1953). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 2, 1: 48, t. 9B (1954). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 676 (1958). — Mogg in Macnae & Kalk, Nat. Hist. Inhaca I., Moçamb.: 149 (1958). — Dewit, F.C.B. 9: 512 (1960). — White, F.F.N.R.: 231 (1962) pro parte quoad specim. Martin. Type from India.
Vitis quadrangularis L. Wall. ex Wight & Arn. [family VITACEAE], Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. 1: 125 (1834). — Bak. in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 399 (1868). — Type as above.
Cissus tetragona Harv. [family VITACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 1: 249 (1860). — Planch., loc. cit. Type from S. Africa.
Cissus cactiformis Gilg [family VITACEAE], in Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 258 (1895). — Gilg & Brandt, tom cit.: 482, fig. 5A-D (1912). — Brenan, loc. cit. — Suesseng., loc. cit. — White, op. cit.: 230 (1962). Type from Tanganyika.
Vitis succulenta Galpin [family VITACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1895: 144 (1895). Type from the Transvaal.
Cissus succulenta Galpin Burtt Davy [family VITACEAE], loc. cit. Type as above.
Cissus quadrangularis var. pubescens Dewit [family VITACEAE], in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 29: 297 (1959); F.C.B. 9: 513 (1960). Type from the Congo.
Information
Climbing herb; stern 1–5 cm. in diam. excluding wings, fleshy, quadrangular with wings at the angles 2–15 mm. broad, glabrous or pubescent or pubescent only at the angles, the angles with a reddish brown marginal line; tendrils present; frequently leafless. Leaves simple, fleshy, glabrous or sparingly pubescent; petiole 0·5–3 cm. long; leaf-lamina up to 4 × 3 cm., very broadly ovate, sometimes 3-lobed or deeply dissected, dentate at the margin, apex obtuse, base truncate to cordate. Cymes axillary, up to 10 cm. in length, few-flowered, sparingly branched; peduncle up to 2 cm. long, glabrous or pubescent. Pedicels 3 mm. long lengthening to 9 mm. in fruit. Flower-bud 2–3 mm. long, glabrous. Calyx 1 mm. long, entire, glabrous. Ovary glabrous; style up to 1–5 mm. long. Fruit red when ripe, up to 8 × 8 mm., ovoid to globular, glabrous. Seeds 5 × 4 mm., smooth with single dorsal crest.
Habitat
Widespread in a variety of habitats but always in areas of low rainfall.
Range
In the drier parts of tropical Africa and Madagascar, extending through Arabia, India, Ceylon, Malaya and as far east as the Philippines.
Distribution
Mozambique M Marracuene, between Umbeluzi and Matola, fl. 2.xii.1948, Barbosa 627 (LISC).Mozambique GI between Chissane and Licilo, Bilene, fl. 9.x.1957, Barbosa & Lemos 7976 (COI; K).Mozambique MS Vila Machado, fr. 8.ix.1942, Mendonça 169 (LISC).Mozambique T between Tete and Chioco, fl. 27.ix.1942, Mendonça 465 (LISC).Zimbabwe S Chibi Distr., 13 km. N. of Triangle turn-off, fr. 28.xi.1959, Leach 9525 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Hot Springs, fl. 22.x.1948, Chase 1453 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W 24 km. NE of Sebungwe-Zambezi R. confluence, fr. v.1956, Plowes 1985 (K; SRGH).Mozambique Z Morrumbala, st. xii.1858, Kirk (K).Zambia S Gwembe Valley, st. 29.iii.1952, White 2358 (FHO).Malawi N Livingstonia-Karonga road, fl. & fr. 9.i.1959, Richards 10574 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Kariba, fl. 16.x.1957, Phipps 796 (K; SRGH).Zambia W Ndola, fr. 10.v.1954, Fanshawe 1176 (K; NDO).
Notes
The specimen Fries 1192 (UPS) from the Lufu R., N. Rhodesia, referred to in R.E. Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 134 (1914) and by White, F.F.N.R.: 231 (1962) under the name Cissus fischeri Gilg consists of leaves and stems only. These are certainly much more hairy than any of our available material of Cissus quadrangularis but as the type of C. fischeri Gilg is probably destroyed and as the Fries material is so poor we prefer to defer a decision as to whether it represents a form of C. quadrangularis or a distinct species.

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