| Toothed-Leaf Chestnut Vine |
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| Original date | 8/31/20 9:38 PM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Tetrastigma serrulatum Family: Vitaceae (Grape family)
Synonyms: Cissus napaulensis, Cissus serrulata, Vitis serrulata
Synonyms: Cissus napaulensis, Cissus serrulata, Vitis serrulata
Toothed-Leaf Chestnut Vine is a large slender climbing
shrub, with branches flattened, striped, hairless, and tendrils simple.
Tiny flowers are borne in corymb-like cymes, about 10 cm long, on
flower-cluster-stalks about 5 cm long. Flowers are about 2.5 mm long,
velvet-hairy; flower-stalks about 4 mm long; sepal-cup flat; petals
about 0.2 mm long; ovary about 1 mm across, hairless. Leaves are
digitately compound, 5-foliolate, leaflet-stalks about 3 cm long;
leaf-stalks about 8-15 cm long; blade of end leaflets about 15-18 x 5-8
cm, elliptic to oblong-lanceshaped, pointed at base, tapering at tip,
distantly pointed-sawtoothed at margins. Blade of lateral leaflets is
about 9-15 x 3-9 cm, oblique at base. Berries are about 2 cm across.
Seeds are 1-2, about 1 x 0.5 cm, oblong-obovoid, transversely ribbed.
Toothed-Leaf Chestnut Vine is found in the Himalaya to S. China and
parts of SE Asia, at altitudes of ; 500-2900 m. Flowering: March-June.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. |
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