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Cissus verticillata
Cissus verticillata
- Botanic Family
- Vitaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Nicolson & C.E. Jarvis
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Antilles
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Bahia
- Goias
- Minas Gerais
- Paraná
- Pará
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curacao
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Tobago & Trinidad
- Florida
- Virgin islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Seasonally inundated areas
- forest
- lakeside
- desert
- cultivated areas
- riverside forest
- secondary vegetation
- primary forest
- forest margin
- disturbed areas
- pasture
- montane thickets
- rain forest
- coastal.
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec Jun-Oct (Peru) All year (Puerto Rico) Mar-Apr & Jul-Dec (Jamaica)
Fruiting Times
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec All year (Puerto Rico) Jul-Apr (Jamaica)
Large evergreen succulent glabrous or pubescent herbaceous tendril-climbing liana or woody vine, with tuberculate or smooth striate branches with 4-angled reddish stems, leaf-opposed simple or bifid reddish tendrils. 3-5 pinnately palmate fleshy leaves pubescent or almost glabrous to 150mm x 80mm with bristle-like serration reddish veins, leaflets to 50mm x 7mm, with lobes to 20mm x 4mm. Aerial roots dangle from branches sometimes to ground. Yellow-green to white or pink-purple flowers to 2.5mm long in leaf-opposed villously tomentose umbels or cymes to 50mm wide of up to 60 flowers, red 4-parted calyx 11mm long, 4 cream petal to 1.5mm long. Purple-black fruit to 10mm x 10mm. If root severed plant continues to grow.
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- net
- NHN
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- FB
- Botanicus
- The Plant List 2
- Fedde
- FOG
- VOPR
- Smithsonian
- FOSEUS
- Rodriguesia
- FOPE
- BMJ
- Exotica
- SAFIO
- Kew
- Standley
- Academia ResearchGate