Anredera cordifolia (Ten.) Steenis

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Anredera cordifolia

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along roadside on hill behind La Rochelle Hotel

Anredera cordifolia

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along roadside on hill behind La Rochelle Hotel

Anredera cordifolia

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along roadside on hill behind La Rochelle Hotel

Anredera cordifolia

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along roadside on hill behind La Rochelle Hotel

Anredera cordifolia

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along roadside on hill behind La Rochelle Hotel

Anredera cordifolia

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along roadside on hill behind La Rochelle Hotel

Anredera cordifolia

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along roadside on hill behind La Rochelle Hotel

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Synonyms: Boussingaultia baselloides Kunth
Boussingaultia cordifolia Ten.
Common names: Madeira vine (English) Mignonette vine (English)
Frequency:
Status: Introduced as a cultivated plant and sometimes escaping
Description:
Twining herb with underground tubers. Stems long, much-branched, producing numerous air tubers (bulbils) in the leaf axils. Leaves thick, fleshy, ovate to lanceolate; base cordate. Racemes to 30 cm long with numerous pedicellate flowers. Perianth segments 2.5-3 mm, white, subtended by 2 bracteoles. Fruits apparently never produced, reproduction taking place vegetatively via the bulbils.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: cordifolia: with cordate (heart-shaped) leaves
Habitat: Disturbed woodland
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Paraguay to southern Brazil and northern Argentina.
Zimbabwe distribution: E
Growth form(s): Climber, liane.
Endemic status:
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Literature:

Biegel, H.M. (1977). Check-list of ornamental plants used in Rhodesian parks and gardens. Rhodesia Agricultural Journal. Research Report No. 3. Page 23.

Press, J.R. & Short, M.J. (eds) (1994). Flora of Madeira. HMSO, London Page 83.

Walters, S.M. et al. (eds) (1989). The European Garden Flora. Vol. III. Dicotyledons (Part I). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Page 176.


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Flora of Zambia: Anredera cordifolia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Anredera cordifolia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Anredera cordifolia
African Plant Database: Anredera cordifolia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Anredera cordifolia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Anredera cordifolia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Anredera cordifolia
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iNaturalist: Anredera cordifolia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Anredera cordifolia
JSTOR Plant Science: Anredera cordifolia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Anredera cordifolia
Plants of the World Online: Anredera cordifolia
Tropicos: Anredera cordifolia
Wikipedia: Anredera cordifolia


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Anredera cordifolia.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=166080, retrieved 19 March 2024

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