Ampelocissus abyssinica

Ampelocissus abyssinica is a large climbing vine native to southeast Ethiopia, where it is known in the Afaan Oromo language by the name teru (also the name for a part of that country), and is used as a herbal treatment for the medical condition known as black leg.[1][2] Its first botanical description was in 1847 as Vitis abyssinica,[3] that name being the basionym for its treatment here under the genus Ampelocissus.[4]

Ampelocissus abyssinica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Vitales
Family: Vitaceae
Genus: Ampelocissus
Species:
A. abyssinica
Binomial name
Ampelocissus abyssinica
Synonyms[1]
  • Vitis abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich. (Poss.)
  • Ampelocissus cavicaulis (Baker) Planch. (Poss.)
  • Cissus pauli-guilielmii Schweinf.(Poss.)
  • Vitis cavicaulis Baker

References
  1. "Ampelocissus abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich) Planch. [Family VITACEAE]". Aluka. Retrieved November 2, 2009.
  2. Lulekal, E.; E. Kelbessa; T. Bekele; H. Yineger (2008). "An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Mana Angetu District, southeastern Ethiopia". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. Metafro-Infosys. 4: 10. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-4-10. PMC 2391147. PMID 18442379.
  3. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 112. 1847 (from the entry for Vitis abyssinica at the Missouri Botanical Garden)
  4. Vigne Amer. Vitic. Eur. 9(1): 24. 1885 (from the entry for Ampelocissus abyssinica at the Missouri Botanical Garden)


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