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Cissus alata

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

Jacquin

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Venezuela
• Mexico
• Belize
• Peru
• Trinidad

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• damp
• disturbed areas
• thickets
• riverside
• coastal
• forests

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Dec Summer

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Evergreen woody herbaceous vine with forked tendrils, striate grooved 4-winged hairy stems. Young growth with white hairs. Compound trifoliate leaves densely villose on both surfaces, rarely glabrate, serrated fleshy leaflets. 1mm long yellowish or red flowers in cymes to 45mm wide, 4 petals. 15mm purple-black fruit.

Further References

• Bailey 1976, van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• RHS A-Z
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Exotica
• Kew
• Standley