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Rhoicissus capensis

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Identification
Vitis capensis Th. [family VITACEAE ] Rhoicissus capensis (Burm.f.) Planch. [family VITACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Vitis capensis
  • Cissus dregeana
  • Rhoicissus capensis
  • Cissus dregeanus

Flora

Entry for Rhoicissus tomentosa Lam. Wild & Drummond [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
Rhoicissus tomentosa Lam. Wild & Drummond [family VITACEAE], in Kirkia, 3: 18 (1963). Type: Mauritíus, Commerson (P, holotype; SRGH, photo.), probably a cultivated specimen.
Vitis capensis Thunb. [family VITACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap. 1: 44 (1794). — Dandy in Bothalia, 7, 3: 427 (1961) non Vitis capensis Burm. f. (1768). Type from S. Africa.
Cissus tomentosa Lam. [family VITACEAE], Ill. Gen.: 330 (1791). Type as above.
Rhoicissus capensis Planch. [family VITACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 5, 2: 463 (1887). — Gilg & Brandt in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 46: 436 (1911). — Bak. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 46 (1911). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 408 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 473 (1932). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 31 (1949). — Suesseng. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20d: 329 (1953). Nom illegit. Type from S. Africa.
Information
High-climbing liane; young branchlets ferruginous-tomentose, later glabrescent and with large pale lenticels. Tendrils tomentose. Leaf-lamina up to 20 × 16 cm., broadly transversely elliptic to reniform, apex obtuse, margin repand-dentate or in some older leaves repand, base cordate with a wide sinus up to 6 cm. across, very shallowly 3–5-lobed or entire (in the Cape Province, but not in our area, sometimes more deeply lobed or occasionally 3-partite), 3-nerved at the base, glabrescent above, ± ferruginous-tomentose below; petiole up to c. 6 cm. long, ferruginous-tomentose; stipules up to c. 8 × 8 mm., very broadly ovate, entire, ferruginous-tomentose. Inflorescences of subumbellate or subcapitate densely ferruginous-tomentose cymes; peduncle up to c. 2 cm. long; pedicels up to c. 2 mm. long; bracts similar to the stipules but smaller. Flowers densely ferruginous-tomentose. Fruit red, up to 2 cm. in diam., globose, glabrous. Seeds c. 1–3, brown, 8 × 6 mm., ellipsoid, ± flattened on one side; testa smooth.
Habitat
Also in Mauritius but probably cultivated. A liane of closed forest or fringing forest.
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Goba, fr. 22.xi.1944, Mendonça 3020 (LISC).Mozambique MS Amatongas, st. 28.i.1948, Mendonça 3755 (LISC).Zimbabwe E Chirinda Forest, fl. 9.xi.1906, Swynnerton 1370 (BM; K; SRGH).Mozambique Z Milange, fl. 12.x.1942, Torre 4584 (COI; LISC).Zimbabwe C Wedza Mt., st. 19.ii.1963, Wild & Drummond 5995 (SRGH).Malawi S Blantyre, fl. xii.1895, Buchanan in Herb. Medley Wood 6981 (PRE).
Distribution (external)
Cape Province
Natal
Transvaal
Tanganyika

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