Ampelocissus africana

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|genus = Ampelocissus

|species = africana

|authority = (Lour.) Merr.Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. ser.2, 24(2): 253. 1935 {{ cite web |url=http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=A5EFCF94B5FBE60ABFC068A3C76C30A5?id=869577-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvPlantNameSearch.do%3Bjsessionid%3DA5EFCF94B5FBE60ABFC068A3C76C30A5%3Ffind_infragenus%3D%26find_isAPNIRecord%3Dtrue%26find_geoUnit%3D%26find_includePublicationAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_addedSince%3D%26find_family%3D%26find_genus%3DAmpelocissus%26find_isGCIRecord%3Dtrue%26find_infrafamily%3D%26find_rankToReturn%3D%26find_publicationTitle%3D%26find_authorAbbrev%3D%26find_infraspecies%3D%26find_includeBasionymAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_modifiedSince%3D%26find_isIKRecord%3Dtrue%26find_species%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal |title=Plant Name Details for Ampelocissus africana |publisher=IPNI |accessdate=November 5, 2009}}

|synonyms = Ampelocissus asarifolia (Baker) Planch.

Ampelocissus grantii Baker

Ampelocissus mossambicensis (Klotzsch) Planch.

Botria africana Lour.

Vitis grantii Baker

Vitis asarifolia Baker

Vitis mossambicensis Klotzsch

|synonyms_ref = {{ cite journal |url=http://apps.kew.org/efloras/namedetail.do?flora=fz&qry=key&taxon=1615&keyid=423 |title=eFloras results for Ampelocissus africana in VITACEAE |author=H.Wild & R.B.Drummond |journal=Flora Zambesiaca |volume=2, Part 2 |year=1966 |publisher=eFloras, through the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew |accessdate=November 5, 2009}}

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Ampelocissus africana is a type of vine that is woody, or liana of the grape family, bearing edible fruit. It is native to habitats in, and around forested areas in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania (including the Zanzibar Archipelago, from where the type specimen was collected), Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana.{{ cite web |url=http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/faminefoods/ff_families/vitaceae.html |title=VITACEAE |work=Famine Foods |author=Robert Freeman |location=Center for New Crops and Plant Products, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture |publisher=Purdue University |date=March 10, 1998 |accessdate=November 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705013614/http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/FamineFoods/ff_families/vitaceae.html |archive-date=2009-07-05 |url-status=dead }} It was originally described botanically in 1790 by João de Loureiro as Botria africanus, which is the basionym for its treatment here under Ampelocissus.