Cissus vitiginea

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 • Malayalam: nerinnampuli • Sanskrit: amlavetasah • Tamil: cempirantai, mutainari • Telugu: Adavidraaksha, అడవిగుమ్మడి Adavi Gummadi

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Climbing, foetid shrubs; bark blackish to reddish; branchlets densely pubescent, swollen at nodes; tendril simple, bifid or branched. Leaves simple, 5-angular or deeply lobed, 4-8 x 4-7.5 cm, ovate-orbicular, base truncate to cordate, margin irregularly dentate, apex acute or obtuse, pubescent, basally 3-nerved; petiole to 6 cm long; stipules c. 2.5 mm long, triangular, pubescent. Flowers in axillary or leaf-opposed umbellate cymes; peduncle to 5 cm long. Calyx c. 2 mm long, cupular, pubescent. Petals 4, yellow; c. 2.5 mm long ovate, obtuse, recurved. Stamens 4; filaments green; anthers rotund, yellow. Disk more or less 4-lobed, yellow. Berry c.1 cm long, ovoid to obovoid, purplish-blue, pendulous. Seed 1, c. 7 mm long, ovoid.

(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)

plant ID – efloraofindia | Google Groups : (mixed thread): 2 correct images as above.
Found in Velneshwar in Konkan in the month of April. one more ID please.

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It is a Vitaceae Member.

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Based on the curved pedicels, i think the 3rd set of pictures belong to Cissus vitigenia (Vitaceae). But need leaf characters to confirm the id.

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Cissus vitiginea — Please check id for GE-10Dec2012: I think this is Cissus vitiginea.
Plant was found growing in dry wasteland in Chennai outskirts.
Flowering and fruiting in November.
All parts, except perhaps flowers and fruits, were pubescent or densely so.
Please check the id

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Yes …, I agree with the id Cissus vitiginea.

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02082017BHAR2 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3)

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Vitaceae sp.. Check for Cissus vitiginea..

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Id.Shrilanka.4 Jan 2020. : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)
Id pl. tree.

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It is Cissus vitiginea

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I’d of another climber from Bilaspur: 2 high res. images.
Request for I’d of another climber from Bilaspur perhaps belonging to Vitaceae. Photographed in August 2021.

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Check for Cissus species (Cissus vitiginea  ??????)

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Yes, appears close to images at Cissus vitiginea L.

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I’d of possibly Vitaceae plant: 2 high res. images.
Request for I’d of a possibly Vitaceae plant growing wild in Bilaspur. Photographed today (1.5.22) morning.

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Check if it is same or something else:
https://efloraofindia.com/species/m—z/v/vitaceae/cissus/cissus-vitiginea

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I think same.

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References:

Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver 1.1  Flowers of India  FRLHT  GBIF  Flora of Karnataka  The Linnean Collections  Flickr  India Biodiversity Portal  Flora of the Nilgiris  RPRC  Flora of Eastern Ghats: Hill Ranges of South East India, Volume 1 By T. Pullaiah, D. Muralidhar Rao, K. Sri Ramamurthy (Description)  Flora of Eastern Karnataka – Google Books  An updated review on Cissus vitiginea L. (Family: Vitaceae … (pdf)