Triclisia sacleuxii Diels

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Menispermaceae > Triclisia

Characteristics

Liane with young branchlets rusty-tomentellous.. Leaves tomentose to glabrescent, with petioles 2–10 cm. long; blade elliptic, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, rounded to subcordate at base, obtuse to shortly cuspidate or longly acuminate at apex, rigid to subcoriaceous, 7–18 cm. long, 5–13 cm. wide, glabrescent above, rusty-tomentose to puberulous on the nerves beneath; nerves in 3–6 pairs.. Male inflorescences axillary or springing from the old stems, of pedunculate cymules arranged in corymb-like clusters; peduncles 0.5–1 cm. long, greyish-tomentellous.. Male flowers with greyish-tomentellous pedicels 1–2 mm. long furnished with 3 bracteoles; sepals 12–18, the 9–12 outer 2–4 mm. long and 1.5–3.5 mm. wide, the 3–6 inner 5–7 mm. long and 3.4 mm. wide; petals 0.5–1 mm. long; stamens 6, 3.5 mm. long.. Female inflorescences similar to the ♂; peduncles of the cymules up to 2 cm. long and becoming robust in fruit.. Female flowers with 20–25 carpels about 2 mm. long.. Drupes truncate at base, 1.7–3 cm. long, 1.5–1.7 cm. wide.. Seeds 2–2.5 cm. long.
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Leaf-lamina 7–18 x 8–13 cm., elliptic, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, rounded to subcordate at the base, obtuse to shortly cuspidate or long-acuminate at the apex, rigid to subcoriaceous, glabrescent above, rusty-tomentose to puberulous on the nerves beneath, nerves in 3–6 pairs, petiole 2–10 cm. long.
Male flowers with greyish-tomentellous pedicels 4–5 mm. long and furnished with 3 bracteoles; sepals 12–18, the 9–12 outer 1–1 x 1.5–3.5 mm., the 3–6 inner 5–7 x 3–4 mm.; petals 0–5–1 mm. long; stamens 6, 3–5 mm. long.
Male inflorescences axillary or springing from the old stems, of pedunculate cymules arranged in corymb-like clusters; peduncles 0.5–1 cm. long, greyish-tomentellous.
Female inflorescences similar to the male; peduncles of the cymules up to 2 cm. long and becoming robust in fruit.
Drupelets up to 3 x 1.7 cm., truncate at the base.
Female flowers with 20–25 carpels c. 2 mm. long.
Liane with young branchlets rusty-tomentellous.
Seeds 2–2.5 cm. long.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Rain-forest, fringing forest, moist shady places; at elevations up to 1,700 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Uses material medicinal
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Triclisia sacleuxii world distribution map, present in Angola, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, and Tanzania, United Republic of

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:581679-1
WFO ID wfo-0000456495
COL ID 58ML8
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Synonyms

Welwitschiina macrophylla Pycnostylis sacleuxii Chondrodendron macrophyllum Triclisia sacleuxii Triclisia lucida Triclisia sacleuxii var. sacleuxii