Cyphostemma hildebrandtii
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Habit
Degraded miombo woodland
Chililabombwe District
Mar 2026
Photo: Nick Wightman
Stem
Degraded miombo woodland
Chililabombwe District
Mar 2026
Photo: Nick Wightman
Leaf
Degraded miombo woodland
Chililabombwe District
Mar 2026
Photo: Nick Wightman
Inflorescence
Degraded miombo woodland
Chililabombwe District
Mar 2026
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flowers
Degraded miombo woodland
Chililabombwe District
Mar 2026
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flowers
Degraded miombo woodland
Chililabombwe District
Mar 2026
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Synonyms: |
Cissus helenae Buscal. & Muschl. Cissus hildebrandtii Gilg Cissus penduloides Dewit. Cyphostemma helenae (Buscal. & Muschl.) Desc. Cyphostemma penduloides Dewit) Desc. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Climber, or sometimes erect, 0.5–8 m tall from large fleshy rootstock; stems somewhat fleshy, rather stout, striate, pubescent or velvety with short greyish or pale ferruginous hairs and with dense purple-red usually gland-tipped hairs 5–6 mm long; tendrils present. Leaves digitately 3–5-foliolate; leaflets subsessile, elliptic to obovate, 3–18.5 cm long, 1.2–9 cm wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, crenate-serrate. Cymes lax, on axillary branches, ± 6 cm wide extending to 24 cm in fruit; peduncle 4–9 cm long with indumentum as for the stems; pedicels 3–4(–10) mm long, pubescent and with gland-tipped hairs; bracts and bracteoles filiform to linear-lanceolate, 0.6–1.5 cm long, pubescent. Buds oblong-cylindric, 3 mm long, constricted just above the middle, puberulous or glabrescent but with gland-tipped hairs at the apex. Petals red to purple, often green at tips, ± triangular, 1.5–2 mm long. Fruits red, ellipsoid, up to 1.2 cm long, 7 mm wide, covered with long red gland-tipped hairs ± 6 mm long. Seeds ellipsoid, 6.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide; ventral median ridge strong. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | hildebrandtii: named after J.M. Hildebrandt (1847-1881), German Botanist and collector in East Africa and Madagascar. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique |
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| Growth form(s): | Climber. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Wild, H, Drummond, R.B. & Gonçalves, M.L. (1969). 50. Vitaceae Flora de Moçambique Junta de Investigaçoes de Ultramar, Centro de Botanica Pages 39 - 40. Wild, H. & Drummond, R.B. (1966). Vitaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(2) Pages 476 - 477. |
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