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Cyphostemma graniticum Wild & Drummond 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
Cyphostemma graniticum Wild & Drummond Wild & Drummond [family VITACEAE], in Kirkia, 2: 140 (1961). Type: S. Rhodesia, Inyanga, Inyangombe Falls, Wild 4883 (BRLU: K; LISC; PRE; SRGH, holotype).
Cissus granitica Wild & Drummond [family VITACEAE], in Kirkia, 1: 11 (1960). Type as above.
Information
Scandent herb; stems up to 1·5 m. long, striate, glabrous; tendrils present. Leaves digitately 3–9-foliolate; petioles up to 2·5 cm. long, glabrous; leaflet-lamina subsessile, up to 11 × 0·7 cm., linear-lanceolate, apex acuminate, margin sparsely serrate, base narrowly cuneate, teeth glandular, glabrous; stipules up to 1 cm. long, lanceolate to ovate-acuminate, margin glandular-toothed. Cymes on axillary branches, lax, trichotomous; peduncle up to 6 cm. long, glabrous; pedicels up to 5 mm. long, with sparse capitate glands; bracts and bracteoles up to 2 mm. long, lanceolate, margins glandular-toothed. Flower-bud 2–3·5 mm. long, oblong-cylindric, constricted near the middle, glabrous. Calyx pink, up to 1 mm. long, subentire, glabrous. Petals pale yellow. Ovary glabrous; style c. 1 mm. long apex scarcely capitate. Fruit red, c. 1·2 × 0·8 cm., ellipsoid, glabrous. Seed 1, c. 7 × 5 mm., ellipsoid, with dorsal crest and prominently horizontally rugose.
Habitat
Usually on granite or serpentine rocks.
Range
Not known outside S. Rhodesia.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Inyanga Distr., Inyangombe Falls, fl. 3.xii.1959, Wild 4883 (BRLU; K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Salisbury Distr., Domboshawa, fl. 29.xi.1946, Greatrex in GHS 15555 (SRGH).Zimbabwe N Umvukwes, Ruorka Ranch, fl. 16.xii.1952, Wild 3919 (SRGH).
Cyphostemma graniticum Wild & Drummond Wild & Drummond [family VITACEAE]
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