Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Climber
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Cissus glauca Roxb. |
| synonym | Cissus wightii Planch. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Large, climbing shrubs. Stem thick; branchlets glaucous; tendrils usually forked. Leaves 8-16 x 6-13 cm, broadly ovate-cordate or orbicular, margin serrate, serrations with bristly tip, acuminte at apex, glaucous below; petiole to 15 cm. Cymes leaf-opposed. Calyx cupular, c. 2 mm long, fringed on margins. Petals 4, greenish-white, c. 2.5 mm long, hooded at apex. Stamens 4. Disc 4-lobed, adnate to ovary, yellow. Ovary tomentose; style thick; stigma truncate. Berries c. 1 cm across, ovoid, purplish, 1-seeded.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Habit: Shrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Dry Deciduous to Moist Deciduous Forests
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kottayam, Kollam, Alappuzha, Idukki, Thrissur
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Maharashtra: Sindhudurg
Kerala: Alapuzha, Idukki, Kollam, Kottayam, Thrissur
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dindigul, Madurai, Kanniyakumari, Nilgiri, Tirunelveli
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
- Vitis gigantea Bedd., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 25: 212. 1866; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1:648.1875; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 71. 1995.
- Cissus latifolia Lam., Encycl. 1: 30. 1783; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 113. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 74. 1998; Shetty & P. Singh in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 287. 2000; B.V. Shetty & P. Singh in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 752. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 179. 2009.
- Vitis glauca sensu Wight & Arn., Prodr. 126.1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1:645.1875,p.p.
- Cissus glauca sensu Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 234(168). 1918, non Roxb. 1820; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 107. 1989.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
- Vitis gigantea Bedd., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 25: 212. 1866; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1:648.1875; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 71. 1995.
- Cissus latifolia Lam., Encycl. 1: 30. 1783; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 113. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 74. 1998; Shetty & P. Singh in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 287. 2000; B.V. Shetty & P. Singh in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 752. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 179. 2009.
- Vitis glauca sensu Wight & Arn., Prodr. 126.1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1:645.1875,p.p.
- Cissus glauca sensu Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 234(168). 1918, non Roxb. 1820; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 107. 1989.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Vitales |
| Family | Vitaceae |
| Genus | Cissus |
| Species | Cissus latifolia Walp. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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