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Cissus erosa

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

L.C. Richard

Common Names

• Mawaya-yeha (Yekuana)
• Caro de Tres Hojas
• Uvito (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Goias
• Mato Gross
• Minas Gerais
• Para
• Paraíba
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• RondôniaRoraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Chiapas
• Tabasaco - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Tobago & Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• scrubland
• riverside vegetation
• coastal thickets
• open forets
• disturbed areas
• fence rows
• pasture
• montane forest
• rain forest
• savanna
• caatinga

Flowering Times

• All Year (Puerto Rico) All year (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Sep
• Nov (Colombia)

Succulent glabrous herbaceous or woody tendril vine, tendrils sometimes terminating in discs. Hairy branches somewhat winged or 4-winged, young stems pubescent. Trifoliate leaves hirsute especially beneath, coarsely toothed at margins trifoliolate glabrous or puberulent ternate leaves, leaflets serrated or bristly-toothed, hairy above, rusty beneath. 1mm long red-brown flowers, inflorescence leaf-opposed hairy cymes or terminal umbels to 10mm long 75mm wide up to 80 bright red flowers, red calyx, 4 orange-red petals. Green glabrous berry maturing black 7.5mm x 5mm

Medicinal uses

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Exotica
• SAFIO
• Academia