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Identification
Vitis crassifolia Baker [family VITACEAE ] Cissus rotundifolia Vahl [family VITACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Vitis crassifolia
  • Cissus rotundifolia

Flora

Entry for Cissus rotundifolia Forsk. Vahl [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 rotundifolia Forsk. Vahl [family VITACEAE], Symb. Bot. 3: 19 (1790). — Planch. in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 5, 2: 512 (1887). — Bak. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 46 (1911). — Gilg & Brandt in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 46: 465 (1912). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 409 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T., 1, 475 (1926). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 27 (1949). — Suesseng. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20d: 257 (1953). — Mogg in Macnae & Kalk, Nat. Hist. Inhaca I., Moçamb.: 149 (1958). — Dewit, F.C.B. 9: 513 (1960). Type from Arabia.
Saelanthus rotundifolius Forsk. [family VITACEAE], Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: CV, 35 (1775); Icones, t. 4 (1776). Type as above.
Vitis crassifolia Bak. [family VITACEAE], in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 391 (1868). Type: Mozambique, between Sena and Lupata, Kirk (K).
Cissus crassifolia Bak. Planch. [family VITACEAE], tom. cit.: 508 (1887). Type as above.
Information
Vigorous climber; stems often 4–5-angled, pubescent or glabrescent; tendrils 2-fid. Leaves simple or occasionally lobed; petiole pubescent, up to 1 cm. long; leaf-lamina up to 8 × 8 cm., circular to ovate, obtuse at the apex, margin crenate, cordate at the base, pubescent or glabrescent on both sides, thick and fleshy; stipules up to 4 mm. long, ± semicircular, glabrous, caducous. Cymes leaf-opposed and terminal, lax; peduncle 3 cm. long; pedicels 4–5 mm. long lengthening to 10 mm. in fruit, appressed-pubescent. Flower-bud 3·5 × 1·5 mm. Calyx 1 mm. long, entire. Petals green. Ovary glabrous; style 0·5 mm. long. Fruit 1·5 × 1·3 cm., red when ripe. Seeds 1–2 per fruit, 9 mm. long, smooth with single crest.
Habitat
Distribution mainly coastal but extending inland in our area up the Sabi and Zambesi R. systems. In drier types of woodland and bush.
Range
Extending from Arabia through eastern Africa southwards to Mozambique and the Transvaal
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique M between Quinta do Umbeluzi and Boane, fl. 20.xi.1946, Gomes e Sousa 3472 (COI; K).Mozambique GI between Inharrime and Zavala, fr. 20.xi.1941, Torre 3871 (LISC).Mozambique MS Boka, Lower R. Buzi, fl. 10.xii.1906, Swynnerton 2072 (BM).Zimbabwe S Bikita, Devuli Ranch, fr. 24.vii.1958, Chase 6974 (SRGH).Mozambique T between Lupata and Tete, fl. ii.1859, Kirk (K).Malawi S Mpatamanga Gorge, 16.viii.1960, Leach 10456 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Hotsprings, fl. 22.x.1948, Chase 1549 (BM; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Congo

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