Cyphostemma elisabethvilleanum
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Habit
Miombo woodland/rocky outcrops
Mutinondo Wilderness, Lavushi Manda Distr.
Feb 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman
Leaves
Miombo woodland/rocky outcrops
Mutinondo Wilderness, Lavushi Manda Distr.
Feb 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman
Infructescence
Miombo woodland/rocky outcrops
Mutinondo Wilderness, Lavushi Manda Distr.
Feb 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Synonyms: |
Cissus elisabethvilleana Dewit |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Suberect, prostrate or scrambling herb 20 - 60 cm long from ± horizontal or ± globose tuber; stems pubescent with multicellular hairs and with longer red gland-tipped hairs; tendrils absent or sometimes present. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate; leaflets narrowly oblong to elliptic, 2 - 7.5 cm long, 0.7 - 1.7(2.3) cm wide, acute or subacute at the apex, cuneate or ± asymmetrically rounded in the laterals, shallowly crenate to serrate, strigose-pilose and with some gland-tipped hairs; petiole 0 - 1.5 cm long; petiolules 0 - 5 mm long; stipules lanceolate, 5 - 10 x 1.5 - 5 mm, puberulous and glandular-ciliate. Cymes axillary, 2 - 6 cm wide; axes red; peduncle 1 - 5 cm long, with similar indumentum to stems; pedicels 1.5 - 5 mm long, glabrescent or pubescent and with some gland-tipped hairs. Buds cylindrical, ± 2 mm. long, constricted near the middle, glabrous. Petals red or crimson and yellow. Fruit red, ellipsoid-globose, 6–7 mm. long, 5–6 mm. wide, with few scattered gland-tipped hairs. Seeds subglobose, 4–6 mm. in diameter, with 2 parallel crests and a few tuberculate ridges. |
| Type location: |
DRC, Katanga |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | elisabethvilleanum: of Elisabethville, the old name for the capital of Katanga province (now Lubumbashi) in DRC where the type was collected |
| Habitat: | Brachystegia and other woodlands. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Dec - Feb |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC (Katanga), Zambia and Tanzania |
| Botanical divisions: | XI |
| Growth form(s): | Perennial. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Wild, H. & Drummond, R.B. (1966). Vitaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(2) Pages 478 - 480. |
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