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Causonis trifolia

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Mabberley & J. Wen

Propagation

C.L.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Slender Water Vine
• San ye wu lian mei (Pinyin)
• Amal Lata (India)
• Kalit-kalit (Philippines)
• Fox Grape
• Taw-sabyit (Myanmar)
• Sànsat (Vietnam)
• Ta dét (Cambodia)
• Noo-u-mindeh (New Hebrides)

Geographical Habitats

• Christmas Island
• Queensland
• Northern Territory
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Caroline Islands
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• S.E Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• New Caledonia
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Caledonia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vanuatu
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Streamside trees
• thickets
• hedges
• beaches
• forest
• hedgerows
• shrubland
• rain forest
• forest fringes
• wasteland. Edible roots
• root tubers & leaves
• medicinal uses
• drinkable sap

Flowering Times

• Mar
• May
• Aug
• Dec. Dec-Apr (Aust)
• Jun-Dec (China) Aug (India) Jun-Jul (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Jun-Dec (China) Oct (Vietnam) May (New Hebrides)

Woody slender evergreen glabrous or slightly pubescent fleshy twining or creeping liana, branches rather flattened. 3-5 branched tendrils with sucker discs. Serrated mucronate leaflets to 60mm long, 3-foliolate leaves villous when young. Axillary or terminal corymb, dichasium or pubescent cymes to 50mm across of whitish flowers, 4 petals to 2mm long. Fruit a white or black berry to 8mm diameter.

Rampant vine

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Jones & Gray 1977
• FOC
• net
• Bodkin
• JPS
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• FS
• USNH
• Botanicus
• Jstor
• F Indochine
• Atlas of Living Ausralia
• JAA
• GBS
• IFV