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''Smilax anceps'' Willd. is a vigorous scrambling vine or shrub, and is one of some 278 species in the genus ''Smilax'' in the family Smilacaceae. The species is widespread in Tropical Africa, Southern Africa, Réunion, Mauritius, Comoros, and Madagascar.〔(Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families )〕 The specific name 'anceps' is Latin for 'dangerous', a caution against the hooked prickles. ''Tarundia cinctipennis'' Stål, 1862, a hemipteran insect, is associated with this plant.〔http://hemiptera-databases.org/flow/?card=plant&page=explorer&db=flow&id=268&lang=en〕 It has tough, fibrous stems up to 5 m long, armed with numerous hooked prickles and pairs of coiled tendrils at the leaf petiole bases. Leaves are entire, alternate, ovate to elliptic to somewhat circular, 4–14 cm long, with a leathery texture. Petioles are 0.5-2.5 cm long, thickened, and channeled above. Inflorescences are many-flowered axillary, globose umbels, with peduncles some 3 cm long and 2 ovate bracts near the middle, and some 5 mm long. Flowers in the same inflorescence are unisexual, with perianth segments 3–5 mm long, recurved, greenish-white, yellowish or brownish. The fruit is a globose berry, 8–10 mm in diameter, turning from red to purplish to black when ripe, slightly sweet and acidulous.〔http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=3858-1〕〔http://plants.jstor.org/upwta/5_178〕〔http://eol.org/pages/1082559/overview〕 This species was first described and published in 1806 by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow, the early German phytogeographer in ''"Species Plantarum"'' (''Editio Quarto'' 4: 782. ) ==Gallery== Smilax anceps, Krantzkloof Natuurreservaat.jpg| Smilax anceps01a.jpg| 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smilax anceps」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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