''Ampelocissus abyssinica'' is a large climbing

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native to southeast

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

, 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. Its first botanical description was in 1847 as ''Vitis abyssinica'', that name being the

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for its treatment here under the genus ''Ampelocissus''.Vigne Amer. Vitic. Eur. 9(1): 24. 1885
from the entry for ''Ampelocissus abyssinica''
at the Missouri Botanical Garden)

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''A. abyssinica'' inflorescence picture from Mytho-Fleurs.com
abyssinica Plants described in 1847 Flora of Ethiopia {{Vitaceae-stub