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Cissampelos laxiflora

Botanic Family
Menispermaceae
Author
Moldenke

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Liana with twining striate puberulent to glabrous stems or shrub. Mucronate leaves to 120mm x 105mm, glabrous above, pilose beneath. Axillary fascicles with mucronate bracts to 8mm x 10mm, yellow pistillate flowers with 1 sepal to 1.6mm x 1.6mm, pilose outside, 1 glabrous petal 1mm x 1mm. Staminate many-flowered fasciculate dichasia to 120mm long with bracts to 4mm x 4mm, yellowish-green flowers have 4 glabrous sepals 0.0mm x 0.09mm & 4 petals, glabrous corolla to 0.8mm diameter. Puberulent black or red drupet 6mm x 5mm with tuberculate ridges.

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