Ampelocissus abyssinica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Vitales |
Family: | Vitaceae |
Genus: | Ampelocissus |
Species: | A. abyssinica
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Binomial name | |
Ampelocissus abyssinica | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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. [1] [2] Its first botanical description was in 1847 as Vitis abyssinica, [3] that name being the basionym for its treatment here under the genus Ampelocissus. [4]
Ampelocissus abyssinica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Vitales |
Family: | Vitaceae |
Genus: | Ampelocissus |
Species: | A. abyssinica
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Binomial name | |
Ampelocissus abyssinica | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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. [1] [2] Its first botanical description was in 1847 as Vitis abyssinica, [3] that name being the basionym for its treatment here under the genus Ampelocissus. [4]