Overview

Comprehensive Description

Description

Erect or climbing perennial herbs or shrubs, sometimes succulent (quadrangularis); tendrils leaf-opposed or 0. Stipules present. Leaves simple (in ours), lobed or digitately 3-7-foliolate. Flowers 4-merous, bisexual, in leaf-opposed or terminal cymes. Fl. bud conic, not constricted at the middle. Disk annular, entire or lobed. Seeds 1(-2).
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Source: Flora of Zimbabwe

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Distribution

Localities documented in Tropicos sources

Cissus L.:
Argentina (South America)
Australia (Oceania)
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Brazil (South America)
Chile (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
India (Asia)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Colombia (South America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.
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Source: Missouri Botanical Garden

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Ecology

Habitat

Depth range based on 4 specimens in 1 taxon.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 1 - 1
 
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Associations

Foodplant / feeds on
Phytonemus pallidus feeds on live Cissus

Foodplant / feeds on
Polyphagotarsnemus latus feeds on live Cissus

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Molecular Biology and Genetics

Molecular Biology

Statistics of barcoding coverage

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
                                        
Specimen Records:65Public Records:18
Specimens with Sequences:78Public Species:11
Specimens with Barcodes:75Public BINs:0
Species:22         
Species With Barcodes:22         
          
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Barcode data

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Locations of barcode samples

Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Cissus

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