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Causonis clematidea

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(F, Mueller) Jackes

Common Names

• Slender Grape
• Bushy Water
• Mor-bir

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Queensland - Australia

Natural Habitats

• Rain forest
• thickets
• monsoon forest

Flowering Times

• Aug-Nov (Australia)

Fruiting Times

Slender evergreen tendril vine with angular striate stems, bifid tendrils. Serrate lobed leaflets, middle leaflet to 60mm x 25mm, lateral leaflets to 55mm x 25mm. Small green flowers in cymes, flowers to 2mm, cup-shaped calyx with very short or no lobes, petals to 2mm long. Globular black berries to 8mm diameter.

Edible root tubers & fruit

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Bodkin
• APNI
• Fedde
• FPA
• ATRP
• Kew