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Cissus adnata

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Wallich ex Wight & Arnott) Roxburgh

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• S Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands - Indonesia
• Laos
• Madagascar
• Perlis - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Palau
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Sarawak
• Solomon islands
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• hedges
• moist open places
• evergreen forest
• secondary growth
• lakeside thicket
• montane areas
• rain forest
• swamps. Edible fruit & leaves.

Flowering Times

• Jun to Oct. Nov-Jan (Aust)
• Jun-Jul (China)
• Jul-Aug (Thailand) Dec (India) Jun (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Jun to Oct
• Aug-Sep (China) Sep (Vietnam)

Large woody perennial evergreen glabrescent tendril liana with bifid-trifid tendrils. Ferrugineus tomentum on leaves, dentate mucronate leaves, glabrescent stems, leaf-opposed umbellate villous corymbs or cymes of pinkish to yellow inconspicuous flowers, 4 villous petals to 1.7mm, fruit a glabrous black berry to 8mm long x 6mm. Branchlets ridged, leaves bristle-toothed, velvety-red beneath

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Manandhar 2002
• Mobot
• FOC
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• GBS ' IFV