Cissus erosa Rich.

Vine becoming woody, often climbing, the stems angulate, tetragonal, fre-quently winged on the margins, slightly nodose, glabrous or with a few scattered, appressed, pilose hairs; stipules broadly ovate to subrotund, subpersistent, 3-4 mm long, the apex obtuse, glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate, the petiole 1.8-6.5 cm long, 4-gonal especially at the base, glabrescent, occasionally winged, the wing up to 1.5 mm broad; leaflets chartaceous to subcoriaceous, sharply serrate to sparsely dentate, occasionally shallowly so, glabrous to sparsely pilose beneath, especially on the costa, the lateral veins 4-6 pairs, ascending and terminating between the teeth; terminal leaflet 4.5-15.5 cm long, 1.5-8 cm broad, elliptic to elliptic-ovate to ovate, cuneate at the base, acute to subobtuse at the apex, sessile to short-petiolate, rarely to 1.5 cm long; lateral leaflets 3.5-12 cm long, 2-6 cm broad, inequilateral, ovate to ovate-elliptic, oblique and rounded to subcuneate at the base, acute to obtuse at the apex. Inflorescences cymose, appearing corymbose with the flowers congested in pseudoumbels, the mature peduncles (6-)7-12 cm long, glabrous or with a few scattered, appressed, pilose hairs. Flowers bright red to reddish-orange, the pedicel 2-5 mm long, pilose often sparsely so, the calyx with four short lobes, often indiscernible, the corolla of four free petals, oblong, acute at the apex, ca 1 mm long; pistil 1-1.5 mm long. Berries green becoming black with maturity, 4-6 mm in diam, orbicular to subpyriform, 1-seeded; seeds pyriform, 4-5 mm long.

It is a tropical plant.