Ampelocissus abyssinica
| Teru | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Vitales |
| Family: | Vitaceae |
| Genus: | Ampelocissus[1] |
| Species: | A. abyssinica |
| Binomial name | |
| Ampelocissus abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich) Planch. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Vitis abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich.
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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.[2][3] Its first botanical description was in 1847 as Vitis abyssinica,[4] that name being the basionym for its treatment here under the genus Ampelocissus.[5]
Sources
- ↑ "Name - !Ampelocissus Planch.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 16, 2009.
- 1 2 "Ampelocissus abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich) Planch. [Family VITACEAE]". Aluka. Retrieved November 2, 2009.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 112. 1847 (from the entry for Vitis abyssinica at the Missouri Botanical Garden)
- ↑ Vigne Amer. Vitic. Eur. 9(1): 24. 1885 (from the entry for Ampelocissus abyssinica at the Missouri Botanical Garden)
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