General Information. Cissampelos mucronata is a climbing plant producing annual stems 4 - 5 metres long from a perennial base and a tuberous rootstock.[. 332.
mucronata (A. Rich.) Engl. Cissampelos senensis Klotzsch. Common names: Hairy heartleaf (English) Heart-leaved vine (English).
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The species is also known as abuta in Ayurvedic medicine. The Maasai people of Kenya use Cissampelos mucronata as a forage for their cattle.
Herbaceous climber, in open forest, wooded savannah, and seasonally flooded grassy savannah; also in fallow and disturbed sites. C. N.: mukoko (kb).
Cissampelos mucronata is distributed throughout tropical Africa, except the most humid areas, from Senegal east to Ethiopia and south to South Africa. show more ...
Scientific Name. Cissampelos mucronata A.Rich. ; Higher Classification. Dicotyledons ; Family. MENISPERMACEAE ; Synonyms. Cissampelos macrostachya Klotzsch, ...
Female flowers with sepal 1.5 x 1 mm., pubescent; petal 0.7 x 2 mm., glabrous; carpel 1–1.2 mm. long, glabrescent. Drupe 0.4–0.7 x 0.3–0.5 mm., pubescent.
Cissampelos mucronata A. Rich. [family MENISPERMACEAE]. Herbarium. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K). Collection. Flora Zambesiaca. Resource Type. Reference ...
Cissampelos mucronata has many medicinal uses, and throughout Africa people take an infusion of the bitter rhizome, and sometimes of leaves and stems, or fruit ...
This study investigated the effects of the commonly used labour inducing plant, Cissampelos mucronata, on pregnancy outcomes using a rat model.