Accession Data:
Stephania cyanantha Welw. ex Hiern
- Common Name:
- Family: Menispermaceae Juss
- Country of Origin: tropical Africa
- Habitat: forest or secondary bushland
- Description: Somewhat woody, twining, completely glabrous liane; stem and branches succulent. Leaves with slender petiole 3–5 cm. long; blade triangular-orbicular to orbicular, rarely reniform, acuminate to obtuse at apex, entire or with the margins slightly undulate, 4.5–6.5 cm. long and wide, membranous; basal nerves 10–12, palmate. Male inflorescences of false umbels of subglobular cymes, usually arising from leafless stems, 1–2.5 cm. in diameter; peduncles and pedicels very short. Male flowers with 6 ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">obovate-incurved, single-nerved sepals 1.5–2 mm. long and 1–1.5 mm. wide; petals 3–5, broadly subreniform, 0.6–1 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. wide, fleshy; synandrium 6–9-locular, 1.2–1.6 mm. in diameter, on a stipe 0.5–1 mm. long. Female inflorescences similar to the male. Female flowers unknown. Drupes subreniform, 4–6 mm. long; exocarp like a thin skin, red when alive; endocarp transversely ribbed and furrowed. Seeds 5–7 mm. long.5
Accession Data:
- Accession # 201700061
- Source: Holly Forbes - UC Botanical Garden
- Provenance:
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley #73.0217 ex Longwood Gardens # 1965-0072. Meyer, F.G. U.S. National Arboretum s.n. Gojjam Province, Ethiopia Edge of Lake Tana, Gojjam Prov. On Ficus. Epiphytic; succulent with pencil-like green stems. Flowers not seen. Was coll as Senecio sp.? & later changed. Undated det. by Lyman Smith at Longwood.
- Accession Date: 07-27-2017
- Bench: 1108 - AFR:West Bench SC
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 02-26-2025
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eudicots
- Order: Ranunculales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Menispermaceae
- SubFamily: Menispermoideae
- Tribe: Tiliacoreae
- SubTribe:
Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Cameroon / Congo / Rwanda / Ethiopia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Angola / Zambia
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, July 27, 2017.
- Stephania cyanantha at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Thursday, July 27, 2017.
- Stephania cyanantha at African Plants Database. Last accessed on Thursday, July 27, 2017.
- Images #00 (cropped) and #01, #02, #03 & #04 (originals) courtesy UC Botanical Garden. Last accessed on Friday, August 04, 2017.
- Stephania cyanantha at JStor Global Plants. Last accessed Wednesday, 19 December, 2018.
data regenerated on Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:39:33 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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Current Accessions in the Menispermaceae
Subfamily Menispermoideae
Tribe Menispermeae
Subfamily Menispermoideae
Tribe Tiliacoreae
W/C = Wild Collected
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= accession added within past 90 days