Cissampelos rigidifolia (Engl.) Diels

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Menispermaceae > Cissampelos

Characteristics

Liane with sparingly to shortly pubescent branchlets.. Leaves with densely hairy-pubescent petioles 1.8–5 cm. long and inserted 0.4–1 cm. from the base of the blade; blade broadly ovate to somewhat rounded, subcordate to emarginate at base, obtuse to subacute and mucronulate at apex, 2.5–10 cm. long, 2.5–9 cm. wide, densely woolly-tomentellous or tomentellous beneath, sparingly pubescent to glabrescent above, clearly discolorous, papery to subcoriaceous; basal nerves 5–10, palmate.. Male inflorescences 8–30 cm. long; bracts suborbicular, apiculate, densely pubescent-tomentose; pedicels 0.5–1.5 cm. long.. Male flowers with sparingly and longly hairy-pubescent sepals 1.2–1.5 (–2) mm. long and 0.5–0.8 mm. wide; corolla cup-shaped, often incompletely connate, 0.5–1 mm. long, sparingly hairy-pubescent; synandrium 6-locular, 0.5–1 mm. long.. Female inflorescences 10–20 mm. long; pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long.. Female flowers with sepal 1–1.2 mm. long and 0.5–0.6 mm. wide; petal 0.5–0.7 mm. long, 1–1.2 mm. wide; carpel 0.5–0.7 mm. long, densely pubescent.. Drupes 4–5 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. wide, hairy-pubescent.
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Leaf-lamina 2.5–10 x 2.5–9 cm., broadly ovate to somewhat rounded, subcordate to emarginate at the base, obtuse to subacute and mucronulate at the apex, densely woolly-tomentellous or tomentellous beneath, sparingly pubescent to glabrescent above, clearly discolorous, papery to subcoriaceous, basal nerves 5–10, palmate, petiole 1.8–5 cm. long, densely pubescent, inserted 0.4–1 cm. from the base of the lamina.
Male flowers with sparsely pilose sepals 1.2–1.5 (2) x 0.5–0.8 mm.; corolla cup-shaped, often incompletely connate, 0.5–1 mm. long, sparingly pubescent; synandrium 4 (6) locular, 0.5–1 mm. long.
Male inflorescences 8–30 cm. long; bracts suborbicular, apiculate, densely pubescent, tomentose; pedicels 0.5–1.5 cm. long.
Female flowers with sepal 1–1.2 x 0.5–0.6 mm.; petal 0.5–0.7 x 1–1.2 mm.; carpel 0.5–0.7 mm. long, densely pubescent.
Female inflorescences 10–20 mm. long; pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long.
Liane with sparingly to shortly pubescent branchlets.
Drupe 4–5 x 2.5–3 mm., pubescent.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Cissampelos rigidifolia world distribution map, present in Central African Republic, South Sudan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:580440-1
WFO ID wfo-0000605903
COL ID VJYP
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Synonyms

Cissampelos rigidifolia Cissampelos rigidifolia var. lanuginosa