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Ampelocissus multistriata

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Baker) Planchon

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Dry forest margins
• savanna scrubland
• sand
• rocks. Medicinal uses
• fish poison
• seeds cooked & eaten
• fruit & leaf used as food

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug

Large herbaceous climber with hollow glabrous striate stems. Leaves with 3-5 toothed leaflets, simple or 5-lobed, glabrous both surfaces, terminal leaflet 220mm x 110mm. Axillary lax panicles to 140mm long with a tendril, of red & yellow flowers, calyx 1mm across, 5 cream petals to 2mm long. Glabrous dark red berry 14mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• Jstora
• FCP
• Adansonia
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• FTEA