Ampelocissus africana

Rogon daji
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Vitales
Family: Vitaceae
Genus: Ampelocissus[1]
Species: A. africana
Binomial name
Ampelocissus africana
(Lour.) Merr.[2]
Synonyms

Ampelocissus asarifolia (Baker) Planch.
Ampelocissus grantii Baker
Ampelocissus mossambicensis (Klotzsch) Planch.
Botria africana Lour.
Vitis grantii Baker
Vitis asarifolia Baker
Vitis mossambicensis Klotzsch

List source : [3]

Ampelocissus africana (known in Hausa as either Rogon daji or Lanbi) is a woody vine, or liana of the grape family, having edible fruit. It is native to habitats in, and around forested areas in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania (including the Zanzibar Archipelago, from where the type specimen was collected), Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana.[3][4] It was originally described botanically in 1790 by João de Loureiro as Botria africanus, which is the basionym for its treatment here under Ampelocissus.[2][3]

Sources

  1. ↑ "Name - !Ampelocissus Planch.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 16, 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. ser.2, 24(2): 253. 1935 "Plant Name Details for Ampelocissus africana". IPNI. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 H.Wild & R.B.Drummond (1966). "eFloras results for Ampelocissus africana in VITACEAE". Flora Zambesiaca (eFloras, through the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew). 2, Part 2. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
  4. ↑ Robert Freeman (March 10, 1998). "VITACEAE". Famine Foods. Center for New Crops and Plant Products, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture: Purdue University. Retrieved November 5, 2009.

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