dcsimg

Description

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Perennial climbing or twining herb with milky sap. Stems 2-3 m long, covered in soft hairs. Leaves lanceolate-oblong to narrowly ovate, hairy on both surfaces, cordate at the base; apex with a long drawn out point, sometimes mucronate. Flowers in axillary pseudo-umbels. Corolla creamy-green. Outer corona lobes white with a horn-like appendage; inner lobes greenish-white. Fruit often with only one follicle fully developed, 5-8.5 cm long, pale green with dark blotches, covered in soft velvety hairs.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Cynanchum schistoglossum Schltr. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=168100
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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