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Issue: Vol. 292 No. 1: 20 January 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.292.1.5
Page range: 57–64
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Cissampelos keniensis (Menispermaceae), a new species from Mt. Kenya, East Africa

Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 45166 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
Cissampelos morphology forest Meru Kenya Eudicots

Abstract

Cissampelos keniensis, a new species of Menispermaceae described and illustrated here, was collected from the rainforest on the eastern slope of Mt. Kenya. It is distinguished from all other tropical East African species in the genus by its cordate leaves, 4-locular synandrium, glabrous drupes and suborbicular-bilaterally compressed endocarp. A key to distinguish among the eight species of Cissampelos known from tropical East Africa is proposed.