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Rhoicissus rhomboidea E. Mey. ex Harv. Planch. [family VITACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 rhomboidea E. Mey. ex Harv. Planch. [family VITACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 5, 2: 467 (1887). — Gilg & Brandt in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 46: 439 (1911). — Bak. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 47 (1911). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 408 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 473 (1932). — Suesseng. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 20d: 332 (1953). Syntypes from Natal.
Cissus rhomboidea E. Mey. ex Harv. [family VITACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 252 (1860). Syntypes as above.
Information
Scrambling vine or tall liane; young parts ferruginous-villous with long weak hairs, soon glabrescent; tendrils glabrescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole up to 2·3 cm. long; stipules not seen; leaflet-lamina up to 6 × 4 cm., terminal obovate, laterals asymmetric, rhomboid, apex acuminate, margins with c. 6 acuminate dentations, base cuneate; petiolules up to 1–4 cm. long. Inflorescences of moderately dense cymes, branches of inflorescence ± persistently ferruginous-villous; peduncle up to 1 cm. long; pedicels c. 2 mm. long; bracts c. 8 × 6 mm., rotund, ferruginous-villous. Flowers glabrous. Fruit c. 1 cm. diam., subglobose, glabrous. Seeds 1–2, c. 8 × 7 mm., ellipsoid-globose, one side flattened when seeds in pairs; testa pale brown, slightly rugose, not furrowed.
Habitat
A tall climber in closed forest or at forest edges.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Chirinda Forest, fl. x.1905, Swynnerton 92 (BM; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Cape Province
Natal
Transvaal
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 rhomboidea E. Mey. ex Harv. Planch. [family VITACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 5, 2: 467 (1887). — Gilg & Brandt in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 46: 439 (1911). — Bak. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 47 (1911). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 408 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 473 (1932). — Suesseng. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 20d: 332 (1953). Syntypes from Natal.
Cissus rhomboidea E. Mey. ex Harv. [family VITACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 252 (1860). Syntypes as above.
Information
Scrambling vine or tall liane; young parts ferruginous-villous with long weak hairs, soon glabrescent; tendrils glabrescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole up to 2·3 cm. long; stipules not seen; leaflet-lamina up to 6 × 4 cm., terminal obovate, laterals asymmetric, rhomboid, apex acuminate, margins with c. 6 acuminate dentations, base cuneate; petiolules up to 1–4 cm. long. Inflorescences of moderately dense cymes, branches of inflorescence ± persistently ferruginous-villous; peduncle up to 1 cm. long; pedicels c. 2 mm. long; bracts c. 8 × 6 mm., rotund, ferruginous-villous. Flowers glabrous. Fruit c. 1 cm. diam., subglobose, glabrous. Seeds 1–2, c. 8 × 7 mm., ellipsoid-globose, one side flattened when seeds in pairs; testa pale brown, slightly rugose, not furrowed.
Habitat
A tall climber in closed forest or at forest edges.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Chirinda Forest, fl. x.1905, Swynnerton 92 (BM; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Cape Province
Natal
Transvaal
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 rhomboidea E. Mey. ex Harv. Planch. [family VITACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 5, 2: 467 (1887). — Gilg & Brandt in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 46: 439 (1911). — Bak. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 47 (1911). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 408 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 473 (1932). — Suesseng. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 20d: 332 (1953). Syntypes from Natal.
Cissus rhomboidea E. Mey. ex Harv. [family VITACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 252 (1860). Syntypes as above.
Information
Scrambling vine or tall liane; young parts ferruginous-villous with long weak hairs, soon glabrescent; tendrils glabrescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole up to 2·3 cm. long; stipules not seen; leaflet-lamina up to 6 × 4 cm., terminal obovate, laterals asymmetric, rhomboid, apex acuminate, margins with c. 6 acuminate dentations, base cuneate; petiolules up to 1–4 cm. long. Inflorescences of moderately dense cymes, branches of inflorescence ± persistently ferruginous-villous; peduncle up to 1 cm. long; pedicels c. 2 mm. long; bracts c. 8 × 6 mm., rotund, ferruginous-villous. Flowers glabrous. Fruit c. 1 cm. diam., subglobose, glabrous. Seeds 1–2, c. 8 × 7 mm., ellipsoid-globose, one side flattened when seeds in pairs; testa pale brown, slightly rugose, not furrowed.
Habitat
A tall climber in closed forest or at forest edges.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Chirinda Forest, fl. x.1905, Swynnerton 92 (BM; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Cape Province
Natal
Transvaal
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