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Cyphostemma milleri Wild & R.B.Drumm.

Species

Angiosperms > Vitales > Vitaceae > Cyphostemma

Characteristics

Leaves digitately 3–5-foliolate; petiole up to 6 cm. long, with a few capitate-glandular hairs; leaflet-lamina membranous, up to 12 × 8 cm., broadly elliptic to rotund, apex acute or obtuse, margins coarsely serrate, base cuneate, glabrous above, glabrous below except for a few glandular hairs on the nerves; petiolules up to 2 cm. long, very sparsely glandular; stipules up to 8 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, falcate, puberulous.
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Cymes on short side-branches, lax; peduncle up to 5 cm. long, sparsely pubescent; pedicels up to 6 mm. long, pubescent and with capitate-glandular hairs; bracts and bracteoles c. 1 mm. long, subulate, pubescent.
Flower-bud c. 2·5 mm. long, oblong-cylindric, constricted near the middle, pubescent and with capitate-glandular hairs near the apex.
Climbing herb; stems sparsely pubescent or glabrescent; tendrils present.
Ovary glabrous; style c. 0·8 mm. long; stigma indistinct.
Fruit yellow, c. 9 × 7 mm., ellipsoid, glabrous.
Seed 1, c. 7 × 5 mm., obovoid, slightly rugose.
Calyx 0·5 mm. long, sub-entire, pubescent.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 21
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Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Cyphostemma milleri world distribution map, present in Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:870307-1
WFO ID wfo-0000634631
COL ID 33GDV
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Cyphostemma milleri
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