| Home | > | List of families | > | Vitaceae | > | Cyphostemma | > | vandenbrandeanum |
Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
Selected images: Click on each image to see a larger version and details of the record View all images (4)
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 1, Chelinda Camp, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 1, Chelinda Camp, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Roadside by end of Zovo Chipolo Trail, Nyika National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Roadside by end of Zovo Chipolo Trail, Nyika National Park.
Detailed records: Display species records QDS maps by: Google Maps Point records by Google Maps
Species details: Click on each item to see an explanation of that item (Note: opens a new window)
| Synonyms: |
Cissus vandenbrandeana Dewit |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Climbing or prostrate tendrilous vine with pubescent stems and sometimes with capitate-glandular hairs near the nodes. Leaves 3–5-foliolate; leaflets sessile or subsessile, elliptic, obovate or ovate, , up to 10 cm long and 5 cm wide, mostly hairless above but with a few hairs on the midrib, whitish-hairy beneath, veins reticulate; margin crenate; petiole up to 4·5 cm long but usually shorter, pubescent and sometimes with a few scattered capitate glands; stipules lanceolate, up to 1·2 cm long, more or less falcate, pubescent and sometimes with a few capitate glands at the margins. Inflorescences on side-branches, more or less compact; peduncle up to 7 cm long, densely pubescent, bracts and bracteoles 1–2 mm long, pubescent. Flower-bud up to 3 mm long, constricted near the middle, thinly pubescent along the petal margins and near the apex. Calyx more or less 4-toothed, pubescent and often with a few subsessile glands. Petals yellowish with red tips. Fruits not known. |
| Type location: |
DRC, Katanga |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | vandenbrandeanum after a colonial farm "Vandenbrande" in the Marungu highlands of Southeastern DRC where the type specimen was collected. |
| Habitat: | Along margins of forest. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
| National distribution: | E |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Mc |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Thursday 3 October 2019 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 286. (Includes a picture). Dewit, J. (1959). Contribution à l'étude systématique des Cissus du Congo Belge et du Rwanda-Urundi (Vitaceae) Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de L'Etat, Bruxelles 29(3) Pages 264 - 265. Protologue as Cissus vandenbrandeana Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 23. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & White, F. (1990). New and noteworthy plants from the evergreen forests of Malawi Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 60(1/2) Page 86. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 103. Wild, H. & Drummond, R.B. (1966). Vitaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(2) Pages 484 - 485. |
Other sources of information about Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum:
Our websites:
Flora of Malawi: Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanumExternal websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanumBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
JSTOR Plant Science: Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
Plants of the World Online: Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
Tropicos: Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
Wikipedia: Cyphostemma vandenbrandeanum
| Home | > | List of families | > | Vitaceae | > | Cyphostemma | > | vandenbrandeanum |