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Cissus trifoliata

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Linnaeus

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• New Mexico
• Oklahoma
• Texas
• Virgin Islands - U.S.A.
• N. Mexico
• Caribbean
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Suriname
• Venezuela
• Rio de Janeiro-Brazil
• Antilles
• Leeward Islands
• Nicaragua
• Puerto Rico
• Bahamas
• Jamaica
• Hispaniola
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• coastal areas
• hedgerows.

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec Mar-Jul (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Aug (Puerto Rico)

Non-woody simple- tendril glabrous vine or succulent shrub to 10m with warty bark, scrambling vine. Trifoliolate fleshy glabrous leaves to 80mm x 80mm, serrated leaflets to 100mm long toothed at apex sometimes 3-lobed. Leaf-opposed cymes or umbels of white, pink or pale yellow 2.5mm long flowers in cymes to 50 flowers 35mm wide, dark purple berries to 12mm diameter

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rehder 1934
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992 : Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• USDA
• JAA
• FOSEUS
• USNH
• SAFIO