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Cissus crusei Wild & R.B.Drumm.

Species

Angiosperms > Vitales > Vitaceae > Cissus

Characteristics

Leaves digitately 5–7-foliolate; petiole 3–9·5 cm. long; leaflet-lamina up to 13·5 × 3·5 cm., subsessile, narrowly obovate, apiculate at the apex, margin serrate to irregularly pinnatifid, narrowly cuneate at the base; stipules up to 6 cm. long, ovate.
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Cymes relatively few-flowered, axillary, up to 3 cm. in diam.; peduncle up to 3 cm. long; pedicels 3–4 mm. long; bracts and bracteoles 0–5–2 mm. long, ovate.
Erect completely glabrous herb up to 40 cm. tall; stem often unbranched, zigzag, deeply sulcate or winged; tendrils absent.
Ovary 0–5 mm. long; style 1 mm. long; stigma slightly capitate.
Calyx up to 1 mm. long, subentire.
Flower-bud 2·5 × 1·5 mm., conical.
Seed 1, 5 × 4 mm., ± smooth.
Fruit 9 × 8 mm., globose.
Petals reddish-green.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support climber
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Mature height (meter) 0.4
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Cissus crusei world distribution map, present in Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:869821-1
WFO ID wfo-0000606173
COL ID VKFC
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Synonyms

Cissus crusei
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