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Cissampelos pareira
Cissampelos pareira
- Botanic Family
- Menispermaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
- Propagation
- C.K.S.
- Cultivated
- C, medicine
Common Names
- Torola (Chepang)
- Ice Vine
- Velvet Leaf
- Gurubuti (Gurung)
- Lungri (Gurung)
- Batulpate (Majhi
- Nepali)
- Dalli Laharo (Majhi)
- Dhakani (Majhi)
- Chillo Batulpate (Nepali)
- Jaluko (Nepali)
- Patha (Nepali)
- Musya Belo (Raute)
- Chhelem Langdu (Tamang)
- Kwartang Gugai (Tamang)
- Tanga (Tamang)
- Ma-nu-pa-tra (Tibetan)
- Phorgel Gil (Tibetan)
- Batang-batang (Philippines)
- Alcotán (Spanish)
- Bejugo pitilla (Spanish)
- Tomatilla de Sabana (Spanish)
- Pareira Brava (Spanish)
- Gasing-gasing (Malaysia)
- Mempanang (Malaysia)
- Ambashta (Sanskrit)
- Akanadi (Hindi)
- Dây Môi (Vietnam)
- Bejuco de Mona
- Pareira
- Oreja de Ratón
- False Pareira Brava
- Kywet-nabaung (Myanmar)
- Teteltun (Mayan)
- Tsutsuc (Mayan)
- Alcotán (Guatemala)
- Peteltum (Mexico)
- Puro del Cura (W. Indies)
- Velvet Wiss (W. Indies)
- Ice Vine
- Akanadi or Memuka or Tubaki-lata (Banhladesh)
- False Pareira
- Phokirkir or Batule Lahara or Gudargano or Ambasthika or Kenfun or Paapagoun or Kwartang Gugi or Manu Patra (Nepal)
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Queensland - Australia
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Borneo
- Brazil
- Cambodia
- Cayman Islands
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Florida
- French Guiana
- Guatemal
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- India
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi - Indonesia
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Laos
- Leeward Islands
- Madagascar
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Netherlands Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Pakistan
- Panama
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Puerto Rica
- Rwanda
- Reunion
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uganda
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Vietnam
- Windward Islands
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Moist shady places
- forest
- primary & secondary forests & thickets
- riverside
- montane areas
- riverine woodland
- montane woodland margins
- hedges
Flowering Times
- Apr-Jun (Nepal)
- Dec (Bolivia)
- Jul-Sep (India)
- All year (Jamaica
- Puerto Rico)
- Jan-May (Vietnam)
Fruiting Times
- Jul-Nov (Nepal)
- May-Dec (Jamaica)
Evergreen herbaceous high-climbing densely white-tomentose dioecious twining vine, tree or scandent shrub with striate glabrous or tomentose stems. Pilose or glabrous mucronate leaves to 180mm x 170mm. Male & female flowers on separate plants. Axillary or cauliflorous staminate many-flowered corymbs or cymes to 270mm long with mucronate bracts to 28mm x 28mm & bracteoles 1mm long, of hispid male green, white or yellow tinged maroon flowers up to 12 flowers 2mm diameter, up to 4 villous sepals to 1.8mm x 1.3mm, corolla to 1.3mm diameter, 4 petals. Female flowers greenish-white or yellowish, in axillary cymes or racemes of 5-10 flowers with mucronate bracts to 24mm x 26mm, to 250mm with leafy bracts to 1.5mm, 1 sepal 2mm x 1.2mm & 1 petal 0.9mm x 1.5mm. Pilose fruit orange or red hairy drupes to 25mm x 18mm with prominent transverse ridges. Twiner with striate puberulous stems. Mucronate puberulous leaves to 55mm x 49mm. Staminate many-flowered axillary fasciculate dichasia to 140mm with bracteoles 1mm long, greenish flowers with 4 sepals to 0.8mm x 0.5mm & corolla to 0.5mm x 0.2mm.
Medicinal uses, roots used to supplement animal feed, stem fibre used for binding.
Further References
- Manandhar 2002
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- FB
- Botanicus
- NYBG
- Mansfeld
- Flora Malesiana
- The Plant List 2
- BF
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- BMJ
- FOG
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Standley
- Rusby
- Academia WWF Nepal