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Cardiopteris moluccana
Cardiopteris moluccana, commonly known as blood vine, is a climbing plant in the citronella family Cardiopteridaceae native to areas from the Philippines south to Queensland, Australia. It is a twining vine with a stem diameter up to 12 cm (4.7 in). The outer bark has deep, longitudinal corky ridges and the leaves are usually hastate. It was first described by Dutch botanist Carl Ludwig Blume in 1847.
The native range of Cardiopteris moluccana is the Philippines, Sulawesi, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands and Queensland. In Australia it occurs on the east coast from around Rossville to about Ingham, and inhabits in rainforest from sea level to about 700 m (2,300 ft).
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cardiopteris moluccana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
