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Cissus repanda

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Wight & Arnott) Vahl

Common Names

• Native Grape (Australia)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Sichuan
• Yunnan-China
• Bhutan
• India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Papua
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• forest. Fruit edible. Open rocky places

Flowering Times

• Oct
• Nov
• May to Jun. May (China) Mar-Apr & Jun-Aug (India) Mar-Apr (Laos)

Fruiting Times

• Jul to Aug. Jun (China)

Large woody tendril liana with 2-7 branched twisted tendrils, glabrescent branchlets & simple glabrescent dentate leaves to 240mm, young leaves red. Terminal or leaf-opposed compound umbels or umbellate cymes of cream or green flowers, villous calyx, 3 villous petals to 2.7mm, fruit a pyridform berry to 8mm, plant tomentose when young, lobed leaves, bristly serrate & pubescent beneath

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Manandhar 2002
• Mobot
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• IFV