Cissus producta Afzel.

[FZ]

Vitaceae, H. Wild and R. B. Drummond. Flora Zambesiaca 2:2. 1966

Habit: Climber; stems quadrangular, very sparingly pubescent or glabrescent; tendrils present.
Leaves: Leaves simple; petiole 1–6·5 cm., leaf-lamina up to 10·4 × 6·2 cm., ovate-oblong, cuspidate at the apex, margin remotely serrate, slightly cordate, truncate or rounded at the base, glabrous except sometimes pubescent at the base underneath and along principal nerves; stipules 2 mm. long, triangular, auriculate.
Inflorescences: Cymes 4–10 cm. long, leaf-opposed; peduncle ± 1 cm. long lengthening to 2 cm. in fruit, glabrescent; pedicels ± 5 mm. long lengthening to 10 mm. or more in fruit, appressed-pubescent or glabrescent; bracts and bracteoles 0·5 mm. long, glabrous, ciliate.
Buds: Flower-bud ± 4 mm. × 2 mm., conical, acute or acuminate at the apex, glabrous.
Calyx: Calyx 1 mm. long, subentire, glabrous.
Pistil: Ovary glabrous; style 1·5 mm. long; stigma subcapitate.
Fruits: Fruit black or purplish-red, 1·1–1·8 × 0·8–1 cm.
Seeds: Seed 1, up to 13 × 8 mm., smooth, with dorsal crest.

[FWTA]

Ampelidaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958

Habit: A large herbaceous climber
Flowers: Pinkish flowers
Fruits: Ripe fruits black
Ecology: In forest

[FTEA]

Vitaceae, Bernard Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1993

Habit: Herbaceous climber or extensive liane 2.4–15 m. long; young stems cylindrical, ± fleshy, pubescent when young but soon glabrous; older stems 4-angled; tendrils usually simple, glabrous.
Leaves: Leaves simple, oblong-triangular, oblong-ovate or broadly lanceolate, 6–12(–14) cm. long, 4.5–6(–9) cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, truncate to subcordate at the base, entire, regularly finely remotely dentate at the margin with narrow teeth, glabrous except sometimes for few hairs on venation beneath; petiole 1–8 cm. long, deeply grooved, ± glabrous; stipules ovate-triangular, 2–3.5 mm. long and wide, auriculate at the base, glabrous.
Flowers: Flowers in umbel-like clusters arranged in axillary and terminal cymose inflorescences 3–5(–10) cm. long; peduncle 1–2(–5) cm. long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; pedicels 4–6 mm. long, very densely hairy, lengthening to 1 cm. in fruit and ± glabrous to ferruginous pubescent; bracts shortly triangular, 0.5–1.5 mm. long, indurated at the base, glabrous or glabrescent, ciliate.
Calyx: Calyx cupuliform, 1 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, glabrous.
Buds: Buds ± contracted at apex when dry.
Corolla: Petals pink or yellowish, elongate-triangular, ± 3 mm. long, glabrous.
Ovary: Ovary glabrous.
Fruits: Fruits purplish red to black, ovoid, oblong-ovoid or ellipsoid, 0.9–1.8 cm. long, 0.6–1 cm. wide, glabrous, 1-seeded.
Seeds: Seed compressed subglobose or oblong-subglobose, 0.9–1.3 cm. long, 6–8 mm. wide, 4–6 mm. thick, with short basal projection; median keel ± raised; pits large and open; surface smooth or slightly rugulose.
Habitat: Evergreen forest, Streamside forest in valleys, rocky places near waterfalls, etc.; 750–1050 m.
Distribution: T3 T6 T7 U2 U4 Senegal to Angola, Zaire, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Native to:

Angola, Burkina, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Cissus producta Afzel. appears in other Kew resources:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Date	Reference	Barcode
Oct 1, 2003	Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. [8697], Cameroon	K000093449
Oct 1, 2003	Cable, S. [2885], Cameroon	K000197574
Oct 1, 2003	Cable, S. [3243], Cameroon	K000197577
Oct 1, 2003	Kenfack, D. [215], Cameroon	K000197570
Oct 1, 2003	Kenfack, D. [312], Cameroon	K000197571
Oct 1, 2003	Kenfack, D. [312], Cameroon	K000197572
Oct 1, 2003	Etuge, M. [293], Cameroon	K000093286
Oct 1, 2003	Etuge, M. [2765], Cameroon	K000197568
Oct 1, 2003	Etuge, M. [4312], Cameroon	K000197569
Oct 1, 2003	Nemba, J. [207], Cameroon	K000093292
Oct 1, 2003	Zapfack, L. [924], Cameroon	K000197567
Oct 1, 2003	Onana, J.-M. [560], Cameroon	K000197576
Oct 1, 2003	Gosline, G. [229], Cameroon	K000197566
Oct 1, 2003	Biye, E. [3], Cameroon	K000197573
Jan 1, 2003	Wheatley, J.I. [838], Cameroon	K000086481
Jan 1, 1994	Harris, D.J. [3852], Cameroon	K000086503
Jan 1, 1994	Akogo, M. [146], Cameroon	K000086504
Jan 1, 1993	Wheatley, J.I. [504], Cameroon	K000086502
Jan 1, 1993	Tchouto (Mbatchou), P. [96], Cameroon	K000086500
Jan 1, 1993	Tchouto (Mbatchou), P. [96], Cameroon	K000086501
Jan 1, 1987	Mambo, P. [25], Cameroon	K000093437
Jun 1, 1976	Letouzey, R. [15187], Cameroon	K000093438
May 1, 1968	Binuyo, A. [FHI 35655], Cameroon	K000093436
	Brenan, J.P.M. [8439], Nigeria	11515.000
	Sidwell, K. [391], Cameroon	K000197575

First published in Rem. Guin.: 63 (1815)

Accepted by

Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso Boissiera 65: 1-391.
Figueiredo, E., Paiva, J., Stévart, T., Oliveira, F. & Smith, G.F. (2011). Annotated catalogue of the flowering plants of São Tomé and Príncipe Bothalia, A Journal of Botanical Research 41: 41-82.
Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo) Taxonomania 30: 1-307.
Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Verdcourt, B. (1993). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Vitaceae: 1-149.
Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 1: 1-114. ORSTROM, Bangui.
Exell, A.W., Fernandes, A. & Wild, H. (eds.) (1966). Flora Zambesiaca 2(2): 353-653. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M. & Keay, R.W.J. (1954-1958). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 1-828.
Robyns, W. & al. (eds.) (1948-1963). Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi 1-10.

Literature

Flora of West Tropical Africa

Chev. Bot. 145.
Gilg & Brandt in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 46: 477, partly (excl. syn. C. arguta Hook. f.)
Remed. Guin. 63 (1815)

Kew Backbone Distributions

Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso Boissiera 65: 1-391.
Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 1: 1-114. ORSTROM, Bangui.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Lavie, Vitacées Ouest afric., Esp. sénégal.: 60, t. 8 (1990).
Descoings in Fl. Cameroun 13: 128, t. 46 (1972).
Descoings in Fl.Gabon 14: 103 (1968)
F. White, Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia p. 231 (1962).
Dewit in Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 9: 523, fig. 13/B (1960).
Keay in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 678 (1958).
Exell & Mendonça in Consp. Fl. Angol. 2: 51 (1954).
Suesseng. in A. Engler & K. Prantl, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, ed. 2, 20d: 259 (1953), pro parte excl. syn. C. arguta.
J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 27 (1949).
Gilg & Brandt in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 46: 477 (1912), pro parte excl. syn. C. arguta.
Gilg & Brandt in Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908, 2 (Botanik) p. 491 (1912).
Planch. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 5: 493 (1887), pro parte excl. spec. Barter.
Afzel. in Remed. Guin. [9]: 63 (1815).

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