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Description

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Climbers or lianes. Leaves simple, peltate or subpeltate. entire or angular. Male inflorescences of small corymbose cymes, either solitary, clustered or forming false racemes. Male flowers: sepals 4(-5), obovate; petals usually connate; stamens connate into a 4-10-locular androecium. Female inflorescences less well developed than male. Female flowers: sepals 1; petals 1(-4); carpel 1. Fruit a hairy or glabrous drupe with thin fleshy mesocarp.

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Cissampelos Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=587
author: Mark Hyde
author: Bart Wursten
author: Petra Ballings

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Cissampelos

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Cissampelos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae. Various species of this genus have a history of use in various traditions of herbal medicine. Moreover, many of these plants were used as curare applied as arrow poison during hunting.^[1]

Cissampelos pareira is used in Chinese herbology, where it is called xí shēng téng (锡生藤) or yà hū nú (亞乎奴). The species is also known as abuta and is also called laghu patha in Ayurvedic medicine.

The Maasai people of Kenya use Cissampelos mucronata as a forage for their cattle.^[2]

Selected species

21 accepted species + 1 newly discovered species

Cissampelos andromorpha DC.
Cissampelos arenicola Ortiz RdC, MH Nee. 2014 New species^[3]
Cissampelos capensis L.f.
Cissampelos fasciculata Benth.
Cissampelos friesiorum Diels
Cissampelos glaberrima A.St.-Hil.
Cissampelos grandifolia Triana & Planch.
Cissampelos hirta Klotzsch
Cissampelos hispida Forman
Cissampelos laxiflora Moldenke
Cissampelos mucronata A.Rich.
Cissampelos nepalensis Rhodes
Cissampelos nigrescens Diels
Cissampelos ovalifolia DC.
Cissampelos owariensis P.Beauv. ex DC.
Cissampelos pareira L.
Cissampelos rigidifolia (Engl.) Diels
Cissampelos sympodialis Eichler
Cissampelos tenuipes Engl.
Cissampelos torulosa E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond.
Cissampelos tropaeolifolia DC.
Cissampelos verticillata Rhodes

References

^ Semwal, DK; Semwal, RB; Vermaak, I; Viljoen, A (2014). "From arrow poison to herbal medicine--the ethnobotanical, phytochemical and pharmacological significance of Cissampelos (Menispermaceae)". J Ethnopharmacol. 155 (2): 1011–28. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2014.06.054. PMID 24997389.
^ Bussmann, R. W.; Gilbreath, Genevieve G; Solio, John; Lutura, Manja; Lutuluo, Rumpac; Kunguru, Kimaren; Wood, Nick; Mathenge, Simon G (2006). "Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya". J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2: 22. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-2-22. PMC 1475560. PMID 16674830.
^ New Species of Sand-Dwelling Plant Discovered in Bolivia, Paraguay

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Cissampelos: Brief Summary

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Cissampelos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae. Various species of this genus have a history of use in various traditions of herbal medicine. Moreover, many of these plants were used as curare applied as arrow poison during hunting.

Cissampelos pareira is used in Chinese herbology, where it is called xí shēng téng (锡生藤) or yà hū nú (亞乎奴). The species is also known as abuta and is also called laghu patha in Ayurvedic medicine.

The Maasai people of Kenya use Cissampelos mucronata as a forage for their cattle.

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