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Ampelocissus africana

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Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
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Internal ID UUID644008d75c186282837418
Scientific name Ampelocissus africana
Authority (Lour.) Merr.
First published in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. , n.s., 24(2): 253 (1935)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Vitis grantii Baker Fl. Trop. Afr. 1: 400 (1868)
Vitis mossambicensis Klotzsch Naturw. Reise Mossambique 6(1): 180 (1861)
Vitis asarifolia Baker Fl. Trop. Afr. 1: 396 (1868)
Vitis chantinii Lecard ex Carrière Rev. Hort. 1881: 457 1881
Vitis hardyi Planch. Ann. Gén. Hort. 23: 234 (1880)
Pareira brava Lour. ex Gomes Mem. Acad. Real Sci. Lisboa, 2 Cl. Sci. Moraes , n.s., 4(1): 28 (1868)
Ampelocissus asarifolia Planch. Vigne Amér. Vitic. Eur. 9: 29 (1885)
Ampelocissus chantinii Planch. Vigne Amér. Vitic. Eur. 9: 27 (1885)
Ampelocissus gourmaensis A.Chev. Rev. Int. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 30: 452 (1950)
Ampelocissus grantii (Baker) Planch. Vigne Amér. Vitic. Eur. 9: 32 (1885)
Ampelocissus hardyi (Planch.) Galet Rech. Meth. Identif. & Classif. Vitac. 2: 316, 409 (1967)
Ampelocissus mossambicensis Planch. Vigne Amér. Vitic. Eur. 9: 49 (1885)
Ampelocissus schliebenii Werderm. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 13: 277 (1936)
Ampelocissus volkensii Gilg Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas , C: 257 (1895)
Ampelopsis africana Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 219 (1840)
Botria africana Lour. Fl. Cochinch. : 154 (1790)
Ampelopsis botria DC. Prodr. 1: 633 (1824)
Cissus botria Peterm. Pflanzenreich : 636 (1845)
Vitis africara (Lour.) Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 778 (1824)

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Ampelocissus africana var. migeodii Verdc. Fl. Trop. E. Africa , Vitac.: 6 (1993)
Ampelocissus africana var. africana Unknown

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Caprivi Strip
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Burkina
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Ivory Coast
      • Liberia
      • Mali
      • Niger
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000531453
Tropicos 34000262
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:869577-1
The Plant List kew-2634304
Open Tree Of Life 820261
NCBI Taxonomy 983244
IUCN Red List 179547
IPNI 869577-1
iNaturalist 340369
GBIF 7293841
Freebase /m/09gcttz
EPPO AWSAF
EOL 5540418
USDA GRIN 312554
Wikipedia Ampelocissus_africana

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Plant communities on inselbergs in Burkina Faso Tindano E, Kaboré GE, Porembski S, Thiombiano A Heliyon 14-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10772096
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23653
PMID:38192748
Ethnobotanical study of nutraceutical plants used to manage opportunistic infections associated with HIV/AIDS in Acholi sub-region, Northern Uganda Ikinyom N, Lamwaka AV, Malagala AT, Ndyomugyenyi EK Trop Med Health 01-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10472741
doi:10.1186/s41182-023-00540-w
PMID:37658427
Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
Antiplasmodial, antimalarial activities and toxicity of African medicinal plants: a systematic review of literature Tajbakhsh E, Kwenti TE, Kheyri P, Nezaratizade S, Lindsay DS, Khamesipour F Malar J 25-Aug-2021
PMCID:PMC8390284
doi:10.1186/s12936-021-03866-0
PMID:34433465
Traditional food plants of the upper Aswa River catchment of northern Uganda—a cultural crossroads Masters ET J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 06-Apr-2021
PMCID:PMC8022409
doi:10.1186/s13002-021-00441-4
PMID:33823912

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