WorldFloraDB - Helinus integrifolius

Characteristics

Woody climber to 6 m. or more.. Herbage usually only slightly if at all pubescent, sparsely appressed pilose especially on the younger shoots and thenerves of the young blades.. Leaf-blades ovate to broadly ovate, (l–)3–6 cm. long, (7–) 17–50 mm. wide, at base rounded or usually shallowly cordate, at apex rounded or rarely acutish, mucronate, thin, at base 3-nerved, above the base on each side of midrib with 3–6 secondary nerves; petioles filiform, (3–) 7–28 mm. long.. Stipules linear, (2–)3–6 mm. long, caducous.. Peduncles filiform, (l–)2–5 cm. long.. Pedicels filiform, (3–)5–8 mm. long in flower, (5–) 7–10 mm. long in fruit.. Cup glabrous.. Sepals ± 2 mm. long, glabrous.. Petals ±1.8 mm. long, whitish.. Fruit pendulous, globose to slightly obovoid-globose, 5–7 mm. long, glabrous, ripening through reddish green to dark brown or black.

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Climbing shrub with tendrils, 0.2-6.0 m high. Leaves alternate, petioled, ± ovate-cordate; stipules linear, deciduous. Flowers in axillary, peduncled cymes. Calyx 5-lobed; tube campanulate; lobes slightly keeled on inner face. Petals 5, ± as long as calyx lobes, cucullate, inserted on margin of disc. Disc epigynous, flat, completely filling calyx tube. Stamens 5, equalling petals. Ovary inferior, 3-locular; style short, 3-fid. Flowering time Nov.-Mar. Fruit an obovate-globose capsule, areolate at apex, 3-coccous; cocci at length dehiscent, with a 3-partite, central axis. Seeds black, somewhat planoconvex, with keel on flat face.

Climbing or sprawling shrub, up to 6 m high; some branchlets reduced to unbranched, coiled tendrils. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate to broadly ovate or circular, 15-35 mm long, apex obtuse, mucronate, lateral veins prominent. Flowers: axillary, in few-flowered umbels; petals greenish yellow; Nov.-Mar. Fruit an obovoid, glabrous capsule.

Leaves petiolate; lamina 1·5–3·5 cm. long, ovate to broadly ovate or circular, apex rounded or mucronate, margin entire, base rounded to subcordate, penninerved, with 5–6 pairs of secondary nerves; lower surface puberulous, upper surface glabrous; petiole 5–7 mm. long, puberulous; stipules subulate, 2–5 mm. long.

A climbing shrub. It grows 6 m tall. It has coiled tendrils. The leaves are 2-4 cm long. They are broadly oval or round. There are hairs underneath. The flowers are in groups in the axils of leaves. The fruit is an oval capsule. The seeds are 3 angled. The seed coat is shiny black.

Climbing shrub up to 6 m high. Branchlets with coiled tendrils. Leaves petiolate, lamina ovate to broadly ovate or circular, 15-35 mm long. Capsule obovoid, glabrous. Flowers greenish yellow.

Ovary immersed in the disk; style 2 mm. long, with 3 spreading branches, or less than 1 mm. long and obscurely 3-lobed.

Climbing shrub to c. 6 m.; branchlets glabrous or glabrescent, provided with glabrous coiled tendrils.

Flowers in axillary pedunculate umbels; peduncle up to 2 cm. long; pedicels up to 6 mm. long, slender.

Petals 1·5–2 mm. long, obovate, cucullate, unguiculate.

Seeds 3-angled or plano-convex; testa shining black.

Sepals 2 mm. long, ovate-deltate, glabrous.

Disk 1–1·5 mm. in diam., annular.

Capsule obovoid, glabrous.

Stamens 1·5–2 mm. long.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
Growth support	climber
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Environment

Thickets; forest margins; dry open woody vegetation of all sorts; usually on sand; Acacia and Acacia-Commiphora woodland and bushland; dry savannahs; in rocky places; thickets along river banks; grassy thickets; at elevations up to 1,700 metres.

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It is a tropical plant. It grows in savanna woodland and in rocky places. It grows in sandy and loam soils. It grows from sea level to 1,980 m above sea level. It can tolerate shade. It can grow in arid places.

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Usage

The fruit are eaten raw.

Uses	food material medicinal
Edible	fruits
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

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