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Cissus

Cissus repens

Cissus
Photo: 呂一起(Lu i-chi), CC BY 4.0
Family
Vitaceae (Grape family)
Grows as
Climber
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to New Caledonia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Cissus repens is a species of tropical rainforest vine in the grape family. It is found in various parts of Asia including Malaysia. This vine is recorded as far south as Cape York Peninsula and the wet tropics region of north eastern Queensland, Australia. It has heart shaped leaves, near them on the stem is the tendril. The specific epithet repens is from the Latin, meaning “creeping”.

Other Cissus plants

Endeavour River Vine · Grape Ivy · Cissus anisophylla · Ivy Grape · Rex Begonia Vine · Veldt-grape · Venezuelan treebine · Cissus subaphylla · Cissus tiliacea · Sorrelvine · Seasonvine · Treebine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cissus repens 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.

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