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Cissus verticillata (L.) Nicolson & C.E.Jarvis

Seasonvine (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Vitales > Vitaceae > Cissus

Characteristics

A vine. It can be 10 m long. It climbs by means of tendrils. The stems are fleshy and cylinder shaped but become flattened when mature. They can be 5 cm across. It is swollen at the nodes. The leaves are alternate and 5-12 cm long by 4-7 cm wide. The leaves are heart shaped and have teeth along the edge. Leaves can have lobes. The flowers are in groups opposite the leaves. They are yellow to pink. The fruit are round and up to 1 cm across. They are shiny and dark purple to black. There are 1 or 2 seeds.
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Lianas, low to moderately high climbing, often scrambling over low vegetation. Branches usually hairy, sometimes glabrous or glabrate; branchlets succulent to subsucculent when young, becoming woody; growing tips usually hairy; tendrils 2-branched. Leaves simple; petiole shorter than blade; blade oblong to ovate, 5–15 × 2–8 cm, unlobed, margins coarsely to finely serrate, surfaces usually hairy, sometimes glabrous. Flowers greenish or yellowish green. Berries black, 6–10 mm diam. 2n = 48.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.0
Mature height (meter) 10.5 - 10.75
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a subtropical plant. In Argentina it grows from sea level to 2,500 m above sea level.
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Common or abundant in dry to wet thickets and forest, at elevations up to 1,200 metres.
Light 4-7
Soil humidity 2-7
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-10

Usage

Uses dye environmental use material medicinal
Edible fruits leaves roots
Therapeutic use Anodyne (unspecified), Arthritis (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Carbuncle (unspecified), Cicatrizant (unspecified), Cold (unspecified), Colitis (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Flu (unspecified), Gargle (unspecified), Hoarseness (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Soap (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Sore(Throat) (unspecified), Sunburn (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Vesicant (unspecified), Bruise (unspecified), Headache (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Water (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Ulcer (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Cissus verticillata habit picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Cissus verticillata leaf picture by dominici canela osvaldodom (cc-by-sa)
Cissus verticillata leaf picture by Thaís Hanriot (cc-by-sa)
Cissus verticillata leaf picture by pedrogc -- (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Cissus verticillata flower picture by dominici canela osvaldodom (cc-by-sa)
Cissus verticillata flower picture by Tony Góes (cc-by-sa)
Cissus verticillata flower picture by Mauricio León Carreño (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Cissus verticillata fruit picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)
Cissus verticillata fruit picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)
Cissus verticillata fruit picture by Dantas Fabrício (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Cissus verticillata world distribution map, present in Anguilla, Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Barbados, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Guatemala, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Mexico, Montserrat, Martinique, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, El Salvador, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, United States of America, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Cissus verticillata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:274684-2
WFO ID wfo-0000607033
COL ID VL5J
BDTFX ID 72764
INPN ID 629343
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Cissus sicyoides f. aristolochiifolia Cissus sicyoides f. marmorata Cissus sicyoides f. ovato-oblonga Vitis cordifolia Cissus andraeana Cissus digitinervis Cissus elliptica Cissus endresii Cissus glauca Cissus gonavensis Cissus latifolia Cissus nitida Cissus obscura Cissus obtusata Cissus ovata Cissus oxyodon Cissus tucumana Cissus umbrosa Cissus venatorum Vitis sicyoides Cissus albonitens Cissus argentea Cissus canescens Cissus compressicaulis Cissus cordifolia Cissus lamarckiana Cissus officinalis Cissus pallida Cissus plumeri Cissus puncticulosa Cissus smilacina Spondylantha aphylla Vitis sicyoides f. monstrosa Vitis lindenii Vitis albonitens Vitis elliptica Cissus sicyoides Cissus tamoides Cissus ovata Phoradendron verticillatum Cissus lindenii Cissus reticulata Cissus rotundifolia Irsiola sicyoides Cissus sicyoides var. palmata Cissus verticillata subsp. laciniata Vitis sicyoides f. laciniata Vitis sicyoides f. lobata Viscum verticillatum Cissus sicyoides Cissus sicyoides f. apensis Cissus sicyoides f. balansae Cissus sicyoides f. canescens Cissus sicyoides f. compressicaulis Cissus sicyoides f. floridana Cissus sicyoides f. foliolata Cissus sicyoides f. jacquinii Cissus sicyoides f. lobata Cissus sicyoides f. morifolia Cissus sicyoides f. ovata Cissus sicyoides f. oxyodon Cissus sicyoides f. paraguayensis Cissus sicyoides f. tamoides Cissus sicyoides f. umbrosa Vitis vitiginea f. bakeriana Vitis sicyoides var. ovata Vitis vitiginea var. canescens Vitis vitiginea var. compressicaulis Vitis vitiginea var. cordifolia Vitis vitiginea var. elliptica Vitis vitiginea var. ovata Vitis vitiginea var. sicyodes Vitis sicyoides var. smilacina Vitis vitiginea var. smilacina Vitis sicyoides var. tamoides Vitis vitiginea var. tamoides Vitis vitiginea var. laciniata Vitis sicyoides var. canescens Cissus verticillata subsp. verticillata Vitis sicyoides var. obtusata Vitis vitiginea var. sagittata Cissus verticillata

Lower taxons

Cissus verticillata subsp. micrantha Cissus verticillata subsp. oblongolanceolata
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