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Cissus elongata

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• India
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Yunnan-China
• Vietnam
• Bhutan
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Singapore
• Sikkim

Natural Habitats

• Streamsides
• forest. Coastal forest
• coastal mountains. Fruits edible when ripe

Flowering Times

• Jun-Jul (China) May-Oct (India)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (China)

Large glabrous woody tendril liana with simple tendrils, ridged branchlets & simple leaves terminal or leaf-opposed dichasium or cyme of greenish-purple flowers, petals to 2.5mm, fruit a purple-black berry to 20mm long x 15mm, digitate leaves, serrated leaflets

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• FOC
• The Plant List
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus