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Lonsum vine (Cissus adnata)

Dlium Lonsum vine (Cissus adnata)

Lonsum vine (Cissus adnata) is a species of plant in the Vitaceae, shrub, slender, climbs onto surrounding vegetation for support, attaches itself using red tendrils, stems 5-15 m long, cylindrical or square and branched.

Simple leaves and long stalks 1.5-7 cm. Leaf blade heart-oval, 6-11 cm long, 5-8 cm wide, 3-5 basal veins, 5-6 pairs of lateral veins, heart-shaped base, notches rounded or blunt and angular, sharply toothed edges on each side and pointed end.



Flowers in umbels and stalks in bunches of 1.5-4.5 cm. Flower stalk 1.5-2.5 mm. Shoots oblong, 1.5-2 mm long, rounded or blunt ends. Calyx wavy. The petals are oval in shape and 1.3-1.7 mm long. 4-merous flower. The fruit is round, 6-7x5-6 mm and one seed.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Vitales
Family: Vitaceae
Genus: Cissus L. in Sp. Pl.: 117 (1753)
Species: Cissus adnata Roxb. in Fl. Ind. 1: 405 (1820)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Vitis adnata (Roxb.) Wall. in Numer. List: n.° 5998 (1831)
Vitis vitiginea var. adnata (Roxb.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 138 (1891)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Cissus compressa Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 182 (1825)
Cissus latifolia Vahl in Symb. Bot. 3: 18 (1794)
Vitis compressa (Blume) Backer in Schoolfl. Java: 250 (1911)
Vitis monosperma Noronha in Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 5(4): 28 (1790)
Vitis radiata Zipp. ex Span. in Linnaea 15: 184 (1841)
Vitis repens Wall. in Numer. List: n.° 5999 B (1831)

PUBLICATIONS

Chayamarit, K. & Balslav, H. (eds.) (2020). Flora of Thailand 14(4): 511-669. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.

Dy Phon, P. (2000). Dictionnaire des plantes utilisées au Cambodge: 1-915. Chez l'auteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.

Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590. Smithsonian Institution.

Lê, T.C. (2003). Danh lục các loài thực vật Việt Nam 2: 1-1203. Hà Nội : Nhà xuất bản Nông nghiệp.

Mao, A.A. & Dash, S.S. (2020). Flowering Plants of India an Annotated Checklist (Dicotyledons) 1: 1-970. Botanical Survey of India.

Sarmah, K.K. & Borthakur, S.K. (2009). A checklist of angiospermic plants of Manas national park in Assam, India. Pleione 3: 190-200.

Turner, I.M. (1995 publ. 1997). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(2): 347-655.

Wu, Z., Raven, P.H. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2007). Flora of China 12: 1-534. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (simplified): 贴生白粉藤
Chinese (traditional): 紅毛粉藤
English: Lonsum vine
Indonesia: Lonsum
Java: Lonsum

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