Category: Cissus

Wild Climber for ID : Way to Nasik : 06OCT21 : AK – 013: 5 images. Wild climber seen on the way to Nasik in the ghats. No flowers or fruits. Ampelocissus latifolia?? This is more in line with Cissus repanda (Wight & Arn.) Vahl [Vitaceae]. OK ! I can not see if the tendril is simple […]

Cissus discolor Blume, Catalogus: 39 (1823) (syn: Cissus inaequalis Heyne ex Wall.;  Cissus javana DC.)? . Please identify the climber from Phenk (Nagaland) : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Please identify the climber from Phenk (Nagaland) Could be Vitaceae member, Cissus sp., Thanks, …, for the genus id. Cissus javana DC. is one possibility as per comparative images at Cissus Yes […]

Cissus elongata ?; . ID please 270519PG6 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)- 2 Mb each. Sending some plant photographs for Identity, These are climbing species of tropical forests. Locality-Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh Alt.- 100-800 msl Seems to be Tetrastigma sp. Vitaceae. Does not look like  ! Keys in Flora of Bhutan at […]

Cissus verticillata (L.) Nicolson & C.E.Jarvis, Taxon 33: 727 1984. (syn: Cissus andraeana Planch.; Cissus canescens Lamarck; Cissus compressicaulis Ruiz & Pav.; Cissus cordifolia L.; Cissus digitinervis Goyena; Cissus elliptica Cham. & Schltdl.; Cissus endresii Veitch; Cissus endresii Veitch, Sons & Gard. Chron.; Cissus gonavensis Urb. & Ekman; Cissus lamarckiana Roem. & Schult.; Cissus latifolia […]

Cissus aristata Blume, Bijdr. 183 1825. (syn: Cissus aristata f. glabrior Miq.; Cissus aristata f. truncata Miq.; Cissus pyrrhodasys Miq.; Cissus simplex Blanco; Parthenocissus assamica var. pilosissima Gagnep.; Vitis pyrrhodasys Ridl.; Vitis simplex (Blanco) Burkill); . China (Hainan, Yunnan), Myanmar [Burma], Philippines (Luzon, Busuanga, Cuyo, Panay, Mindanao, Luzon), Palawan, Thailand, New Guinea, Australia (Queensland), Java, Andaman […]

Cissus latifolia ?; . ID requested: Vine/creeper/climber (Mudumalai forests, Nilgiris, TN): 4 images. Cissus latifolia Lam. ?? The leaf pictures donot match with eflora website  ( Cissus latifolia)   :  https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m—z/v/vitaceae/cissus/cissus-latifolia Cissus adnata Roxb. ?? Yes it’s close to adnata I think it is closer to images at Cissus latifolia Lam. as per comparative images at Cissus. But difficult to say with […]

Cissus latifolia Lam., Encycl. 1: 30 1783. (syn: Cissus acuminata Thw. (ambiguous synonym); Cissus gigantea Bedd.; Cissus glauca Roxb. (ambiguous synonym); Cissus repanda Gamble (ambiguous synonym); Cissus wightii Planch.; Vitis acuminata Trim. (ambiguous synonym); Vitis gigantea Bedd.; Vitis glauca Wight & Arn. (ambiguous synonym)); . Sri Lanka, S-India (Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu) as per Catalogue […]

Cissus arnottiana B.V.Shetty & Par.Singh, Kew Bull. 44: 473 1989. ; . India (Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala), Sri Lanka as per Catalogue of Life; . Cissus arnottiana B.V.Shetty & Par.Singh has tendrils, which are not there in Cissus woodrowii (Stapf ex Cooke) Santapau . Cissus arnottiana B.V.Shetty & Par.Singh due to simple tendrils, […]

Cissus glyptocarpa Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 62 1858. (syn: Vitis glyptocarpa (Thw.) M. Laws.); Creepers or climbers; branches with corky wings, glabrous. Leaves to 10 x 7 cm, ovate, acuminate at apex, cordate at base, serrate, puberulus, nerves 4-7 pairs; petiole to 3 cm long. Cymes 3 x 3 cm, extra- axillary, peduncled. Flowers many, […]

Cissus adnata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 405 1820. (syn: Cissus compressa Blume; Cissus cordata Wall.; Cissus kleinii Laws.; Cissus pallida (Wight & Arn.) Steud.; Vitis adnata (Roxb.) Wall.; Vitis compressa (Blume) Backer; Vitis latifolia Vahl ex Steud. (ambiguous synonym); Vitis monosperma Noronha; Vitis pallida Wight & Arn. (ambiguous synonym); Vitis radiata Zipp. ex Span.; Vitis […]

Cissus vitiginea L., Sp. Pl. 117 1753. (Syn: Cissus angulata Lam.; Cissus vitifolia Salisb. (ambiguous synonym); Vitis linnaei Wall.; Vitis linnaei Wight & Arn.; Vitis vitiginea (L.) Kuntze); . Sri Lanka, S-India (Orissa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala), Thailand, Maldives, Bangladesh as per Catalogue of Life; . Common name: South Indian Treebine • […]

Cissus woodrowii (Stapf ex Cooke) Santapau , Kew Bull. 3: 276 1948. (Syn: Vitis woodrowii Stapf ex Cooke); . India (Maharashtra) as per Catalogue of Life; . Karnataka and Maharashtra as per Flora of Peninsular India; . Common name: Woodrow’s Grape Tree • Marathi: गिरणूळ girnul . Cissus woodrowii (Stapf ex Cooke) Santapau is very […]

Cissus rotundifolia Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 19 1794. (syn. Cissus crassifolia (Baker) Planch.; Saelanthus rotundifolius Forssk.; Vitis crassifolia Baker; Vitis forskahlii Blatter; Vitis pachyphylla Cordem.; Vitis rotundifolia Deflers); . South Africa (Mpulamanga, KwaZulu-Natal), Swaziland, E-D.R. Congo (Zaire), Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, South Sudan, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mauritius, La Runion, Saudi Arabia (Hejaz, C-Saudi […]

Cissus repens Lam., Encycl. 1: 31 1783. (Syn: Cissus cordata Roxb.; Cissus glaucoramea Planch.; Cissus purpurea Roxb. ex Steud.; Cissus vesicatoria Blanco; Vitis cordata Wall. (ambiguous synonym); Vitis glauca (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. (Unresolved); Vitis kleinii Wall.; Vitis latifolia Lam. ex Steud. (ambiguous synonym); Vitis metziana Miq.; Vitis repens (Lam.) Wight & Arn. (ambiguous synonym)); Bhutan, India […]

Cissus repanda Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 18 1794. (Syn: Cissus aquosa Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Cissus glauca Thw. (ambiguous synonym); Cissus indica Koen. ex Steud. (ambiguous synonym); Cissus indica Rottl. (ambiguous synonym); Cissus repens Thw. (ambiguous synonym); Cissus riparia Laws.; Cissus rosea (Royle) Walp.; Cissus roseus Royle; Rinxostylis repanda (Vahl.) Rafin.; Vitis angulata Kurz (ambiguous synonym); Vitis […]

Cissus quadrangularis L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12 2: 124 1767. (Cissus bifida Schumach. & Thonn.; Cissus edulis Dalzell; Cissus quadrangula L.; Cissus quadrangula Salisb.; Cissus succulenta (Galpin) Burtt-Davy; Cissus tetragona Harv.; Cissus tetraptera Hook.f.; Cissus triandra Schumach. & Thonn.; Vitis quadrangularis (L.) Wall. ex Wight & Arn.; Vitis quadrangularis (L.) Morales; Vitis quadrangularis (L.) Wall. ex […]

Cissus elongata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 411 1820. (Syn: Cayratia elongata (Roxb.) Suess.; Cissus pentaphylla Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. (ambiguous synonym); Vitis elongata (Roxb.) Wall. ex M.A. Lawson); . Bhutan, India (Darjeeling, Assam, Meghalaya), Bangladesh, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Sagaing), China (Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan), Sikkim, Andamans as per Catalogue of Life (Cissus elongata subsp. elongata); . India (Maharashtra, […]

Cissus discolor Blume, Catalogus: 39 (1823) (syn: Cissus inaequalis Heyne ex Wall.;  Cissus javana DC.; Cissus javana var. rotundifolia Amsh.; Cissus sicyoides Klein ex Steud.; Vitis bracteata Noronha; Vitis costata Wall.; Vitis discolor (Bl.) Dalz.; Vitis diversifolia Wall.; Vitis discolor (Bl.) Dalz.; Vitis diversifolia Wall.; Vitis inaequalis Wall. (ambiguous synonym) ; Vitis inaequalis Wall. ex Wight […]