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Cissus verticillata

(L.) Nicolson & C.E.Jarvis (1984)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Vitales Family: Vitaceae Genus: Cissus

princess vine

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Lianas, low to moderately high climbing, often scrambling over low vegetation.

Stems: Branches usually hairy, sometimes glabrous or glabrate, branchlets succulent to subsucculent when young, becoming woody, growing tips usually hairy, tendrils 2-branched. Bark adherent, pith white, continuous through nodes.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades oblong to ovate, 5–15 × 2–8 cm,. Surfaces usually hairy, sometimes glabrous. Margins unlobed, coarsely to finely serrate. Petioles shorter than blade.

Flowers: Flowers in corymb-like cymes; leaf-opposed. Flowers greenish or yellowish green. Calyx cup-shaped, indistinctly 4-lobed. Petals 4, distinct. Stamens 4. Ovary superior; style conic or cylindric, elongate.

Fruit: Berries black; 6–10 mm diam.

Ploidy: 2n = 48

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Images

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Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Cissus verticillata subsp. verticillata

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized
O'ahu Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents

Water/Ocean
Birds

Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Taxon 33: 727 (1984)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cissus verticillata Lawai Valley. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden Vine around chalet. Preserved_Specimen Flynn, T.W. 1933 Kauai BISH 1986-11-12
2 Cissus verticillata Stainback Highway, Mile 0-1, Puna District. Robust vine growing high in tree adjacent to road. Cultivated or possibly escaped. Preserved_Specimen Pratt, L.W. 3409 Hawaii BISH 2005-04-07
3 Cissus verticillata Waimanalo, above town betw Kumuhau St and Kakaina St. Especially common along Mahaiula St. Covering moderate sized trees. Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 4956 Oahu BISH 2006-02-06
4 Cissus verticillata Koloa District, Kalaheo, CA 0.3 MILE e OF JNC OF Lau`oho Rd and Waha Rd Roadside Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 7045 Kauai BISH 2005-06-23
5 Cissus verticillata Koloa District; Hapa Road roadside W/ Ficus microcarpa, Ricinus communis. Leucaena leucocephala, Megathyrsus maximus, Clusia rosea, Furcraea foetida Preserved_Specimen Tangalin, N. 5184 Kauai BISH 2021-06-25
6 Cissus verticillata Stainback Hwy, South Hilo. UTM 2174901N, 283586E. Growing with Chrysalidocarpus lutescens. Preserved_Specimen Parker, J. 155 Hawaii BISH 2011-04-27
7 Cissus verticillata Tantalus Dr. ca 200m above the last house of the development Sunny roadside Preserved_Specimen Faccenda, K. 1880 Oahu BISH 2021-05-22
8 Cissus verticillata Honolulu, 2749 Tantalus Drive, in back of house. Preserved_Specimen Springer, L. Oahu BISH 2019-12-28
9 Cissus verticillata Koloa district; Kauai Coffee fields E of Lawai Valley, makai side of the main haul cane road. Coffee fields Preserved_Specimen Shimatsu, J. Kauai BISH 2011-11-18
10 Cissus verticillata Koloa, Hapa Rd. weedy roadside scrub, haole koa Preserved_Specimen Trauernicht, C. 192 Kauai BISH 2007-10-10
11 Cissus verticillata Koloa District. South of Koloa, on the roadside of Hapa Road just north of St. Raphaels Church. Growing along ditch and trhoughout adjacent field. A smothering vine common around Koloa. Growing over Laucaena leucocephala and Megathyrsus maximus. Preserved_Specimen Brock, K. 954 Kauai BISH 2017-03-07
12 Cissus verticillata Makiki Heights Dr., Tantalus and Nature Center Parking area, Oahu, Hawaii Growing in parking area over other vegetation. Preserved_Specimen Crago, L.M. 2005215.5 Oahu BISH 2005-11-01
13 Cissus verticillata Makiki Forestry Nursery Covering tress. Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Oahu BISH 1978-01-27
14 Cissus verticillata Lawai, on Lanoho Road just west of Lawai Cannery Lowland roadside residential area/secondary vegetation. Preserved_Specimen OED 2010022305 Kauai BISH 2010-02-23
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