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Cyphostemma adenocaule

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Steudel ex A. Richard) Descoings ex Wild & R.B. Drummond

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• secondary forest
• savanna.

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous slightly succulent caudiciform tendril climber with angular striate stems to 7.5m, branched tendrils. 3-9 leaflets, toothed terminal leaflet to 75mm x 50mm with bristly hairs both surfaces or glabrous. Maroon & yellow flowers in axillary cyme to 100mm across, corolla to 2mm long, 4 petals. Glabrous green to dark brown-purple fruit 25mm across.

Fruits edible when black, medicinal uses, grown for fodder

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• net
• Aluka
• Adansonia
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Ichikawa
• Traditional vegetables in Benin