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Cissampelos mucronata
Cissampelos mucronata
- Botanic Family
- Menispermaceae
- Author
- A. Richard
Common Names
- Amangulo (Mawambo)
- Chipomba-folia (Mozambique)
- Umuhanda (Rwanda)
- Chilambe (Malawi)
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- N. Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Natal
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Shrubland
- savanna
- forest edge
- seasonally inundated areas
- distubed areas
- thicket edge
- secondary forest
Flowering Times
- Feb
- Apr
- Jun
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
Fruiting Times
Twining woody liane or subshrub to 2m with pilose or tomentose striate stems. Mucronate leaves to 100mm x 85mm. Staminate many-flowered fasciculate dichasia to 300mm long with bracts to 12mm x 12mm & bracteoles to 0.5mm. Staminate pale yellow or whitish flowers with 4 sepals to 1.5mm x 1mm & corolla to 0.5mm x 1mm. Pistillate inflorescence of 5-12 greenish-yellow flowers in axillary fascicles with mucronate bracts to 18mm x 21mm, pistillate flowers with 1 sepal to 1.7mm x 1mm & 1 petal to 0.7mm x 1mm. Pilose red drupe to 6mm x 5mm.
Ritual medicine
Further References
- APD
- Mobot
- The Plant List 2
- Ichigawa
- Gleason & Moldenke