Cissus palmatifida Planch.

Species

Angiosperms > Vitales > Vitaceae > Cissus

Characteristics

A trailing herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has a few simple tendrils by which it can attach to objects. The leaves are alternate and have leaflets arranged like fingers on a hand. There are 3-5 lobes. The leaf blade is about 11 cm long and the stalk can be 5 cm long. There are 6-12 flowers in a cluster. The fruit is a berry 4-5 mm across. It is black and has one seed.
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Stems suberect at first, then trailing or climbing, often purple-tinged
Ripe fruit black
Flowers yellow
Life form perennial
Growth form -
Growth support climber
Foliage retention -
Sexuality -
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.5
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Environment

Savannah; open forest; forest gallery; fallows; on laterite (bowal); rocks; sandy or sandy-clayey soils.
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A tropical plant. It grows in savanna woodland.
In savannah.
Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The leaves are used to make a sauce. They are also used to flavour other dishes. The pulp of the ripe fruit is eaten.
Uses food material poison
Edible fruits leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Cissus palmatifida world distribution map, present in Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, and Togo

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:67840-1
WFO ID wfo-0000606634
COL ID 5Z95P
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Cissus cocciniifolia Vitis palmatifida Cissus palmatifida Cissus vuilletii Cissus triangularis Cissus palmatifida var. integrifolia