Cissus quarrei Dewit

Erect herb or ± climbing, 0.6–1 m. tall from extensive woody rootstock with swollen tubers 4.5–10 cm. in diameter; stems cylindrical, striate, pubescent with short crisped usually ferruginous hairs and scattered shining black medifixed hairs; tendrils absent.. Leaves simple, round to broadly oblong or rhombic, 4.5–13 cm. long, 3.5–12 cm. wide, apiculate at the apex, subcordate at the base, sometimes faintly 3-lobed, distinctly narrowly serrate, pubescent, particularly on venation beneath and with scattered shining black medifixed hairs particularly on undersurface; petiole 1–3.5 cm. long, pubescent; stipules triangular or oblong, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, pubescent.. Flowers in usually trichotomous cymes; peduncle 2–6.5 cm. long, pubescent; pedicels 3–5 mm. long, lengthening to 1 cm., densely covered with shining black deciduous medifixed hairs; bracts and bracteoles ± ovate, 1.5 mm. long, pubescent.. Calyx brown, ± 1 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, entire, densely pubescent with white hairs and with scattered black medifixed hairs.. Petals green or yellow and brown, 1.5–2 mm. long, pubescent with white hairs beneath, and very densely covered with shining black medifixed hairs above.. Ovary with black medifixed hairs; style 0.5–1 mm. long.. Fruit compressed oblong-ovoid, 1 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, glabrous, rugose and ridged in the dry state.

It is a tropical plant. It grows near rivers and in woodland between 1,100-1,500 m above sea level.

The fruit is eaten raw.

Plants can be grown from seed.