taxonID	type	description	language	source
5C0F87B59570382798CA1FD9FC6DF9E3.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — KENYA. Meru District: eastern slope of Mt. Kenya, Kaburia Track, S 0.13736, E 37.54947, elevation 2241 m, 29 Jun. 2016, Zhou & Mbuni 16 / 14 (holotype HIB!; isotypes EA!, PE!). Liana up to 5 m or longer, with woody rootstock; stems and branchlets glabrous to slightly subtomentose. Leaves subpetiolate, with petioles 25 – 50 mm long and inserted 0.5 – 5 mm above the base of the blade; blade heart-shaped, sometimes asymmetric, 40 – 80 × 35 – 70 mm, bright green and glabrous or slightly pubescent above, pale green and with grey indumentum beneath; basal nerves 5 – 7, palmate. Male inflorescences of axillary, solitary or rarely up to 3, corymbose cymules, slightly pubescent; peduncles 2 – 8 (– 15) mm long. Male flowers with pedicels 2 – 5 mm long; sepals 4 (– 7), obovate, 1 – 2 × 0.8 – 1.6 mm, pale green central, transparent at the margins, slightly pubescent outside, glabrous inside; corolla cupuliform, glabrous, 0.5 – 1 × 1 – 1.5 mm; synandrium 1 – 1.5 mm long, 4 - locular. Female inflorescences of several 5 - or 6 - flowered cymes arranged in axillary false racemes 30 – 90 mm long, solitary; bracts cordate to lanceolate, 7 – 20 × 6 – 17 mm. Female flowers with pedicels up to 3 mm long; sepal 1, obovate, 1 – 2 × 0.8 – 1.5 mm, pubescent outside, glabrous inside; petal 1, sub-rounded, 0.5 – 1 mm in diameter, glabrous; carpel oval, 0.5 – 0.8 × 0.3 – 0.5 mm, pubescent; stigmas 3. Drupes glabrous, oblate spheroid, ca. 5 × 5 × 4 mm, with persistent style ca. 0.5 mm long. Endocarp suborbicular-bilaterally compressed, ca. 4.3 × 3.8 × 3.5 mm.	en	Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mbuni, Yuvenalis, Hu, Guang-Wan, Zhong, Zhi-Xiang, Yan, Xue, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Wang, Qing-Feng (2017): Cissampelos keniensis (Menispermaceae), a new species from Mt. Kenya, East Africa. Phytotaxa 292 (1): 57-64, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.292.1.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.292.1.5
5C0F87B59570382798CA1FD9FC6DF9E3.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The specific epithet “ keniensis ” refers to Mt. Kenya.	en	Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mbuni, Yuvenalis, Hu, Guang-Wan, Zhong, Zhi-Xiang, Yan, Xue, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Wang, Qing-Feng (2017): Cissampelos keniensis (Menispermaceae), a new species from Mt. Kenya, East Africa. Phytotaxa 292 (1): 57-64, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.292.1.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.292.1.5
5C0F87B59570382798CA1FD9FC6DF9E3.taxon	distribution	Distribution and ecology: — Known only from the type locality. It was found in montane rainforest, climbing on ferns, woody herbs, shrubs and small trees, from 2100 to 2250 m. Additional specimens examined (paratypes): — KENYA. Meru District: eastern slope of Mt. Kenya, Kaburia Track, S 0.13905, E 37.55486, elevation 2180 m, 29 Jun. 2016, Zhou & Mbuni 16 / 17 (HIB!, EA!, PE!); Kaburia Track, S 0.13718, E 37.54861, elevation 2211 m, 29 Jun. 2016, Zhou & Mbuni 16 / 20 (HIB!, EA!); Kaburia Track, S 0.14114, E 37.55548, elevation 2148 m, 10 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003939 (HIB!).	en	Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mbuni, Yuvenalis, Hu, Guang-Wan, Zhong, Zhi-Xiang, Yan, Xue, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Wang, Qing-Feng (2017): Cissampelos keniensis (Menispermaceae), a new species from Mt. Kenya, East Africa. Phytotaxa 292 (1): 57-64, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.292.1.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.292.1.5
