Cissus verticillata |
Vitaceae |
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bejuco loco, millionaire vine, possum grape, princess vine, seasonvine, waterwithe treebine |
grape family |
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Habit | 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. |
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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. |
alternate, simple or palmately or pinnately compound; stipules present; petiole present; blade often palmately lobed, margins dentate, serrate, or crenate; venation palmate or pinnate. |
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Inflorescences | bisexual or functionally unisexual, axillary or terminal and appearing leaf-opposed, cymes or thryses [spikes]. |
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Flowers | greenish or yellowish green. |
bisexual or unisexual; perianth and androecium hypogynous; hypanthium absent; sepals 4–5(–9), connate most or all of length; petals (3–)4–5(–9), distinct (connate distally, forming calyptra, in Vitis) [connate basally], valvate, free; nectary intrastaminal; stamens (3–)4–5(–9), opposite petals, distinct; anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits; staminodes present in functionally pistillate flowers; pistil 1, 2[–3]-carpellate, ovary superior, 2[–3]-locular, placentation axile, sometimes appearing parietal; ovules 2 per locule, apotropous or anatropous; style 1; stigma 1 [4]. |
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Fruits | berries. |
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Berries | black, 6–10 mm diam. 2n = 48. |
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Seeds | 1–4 per fruit. |
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Vines | or lianas, occasionally shrubby [trees], synoecious, dioecious, or polygamomonoecious; commonly with multicellular, stalked, caducous, spheric structures (pearl glands); tendrils usually present, rarely absent. |
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Cissus verticillata |
Vitaceae |
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Phenology | Flowering and fruiting year-round. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Coastal hammocks, low ground. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 0–20 m. (0–100 ft.) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Bermuda
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North America; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Eurasia; Africa; Indian Ocean Islands; Pacific Islands; Australia; primarily tropical and subtropical with a few genera in warm temperate to temperate regions |
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Discussion | Cissus verticillata in the flora area is found in the southern two-thirds of peninsular Florida. The inflorescences of C. verticillata, and less often C. trifoliata, are sometimes greatly expanded and deformed by the smut Mycosyrnix cissi (de Candolle) Beck, with the individual flowers being transformed into subcylindric structures containing the spores of the fungus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Genera 15, species ca. 900 (6 genera, 30 species in the flora). In the past decade, considerable effort has been made to reconstruct the phylogeny of Vitaceae (M. Rossetto et al. 2001, 2002; M. J. Ingrouille et al. 2002; A. Soejima and Wen J. 2006; Wen et al. 2007; Ren H. et al. 2011; A. Trias-Blasi et al. 2012; Lu L. M. et al. 2013; Wen et al. 2013b; Zhang N. et al. 2015). These analyses have generally supported five major clades within Vitaceae: the Ampelopsis clade, the Ampelocissus-Vitis clade, the Parthenocissus-Yua clade, the core Cissus clade, and the Cayratia-Cyphostemma-Tetrastigma clade. Placentation type and ovary locule number in Vitaceae have been interpreted in different ways. Most authors state that the gynoecium is bilocular and the placentation type is axile (for example, J. E. Planchon 1887; P. K. Endress 2010), but others report the gynoecium as unilocular and refer to the placentation type as parietal (V. Puri 1952; N. C. Nair and K. V. Mani 1960). Recent anatomical studies confirm that the ovary in Vitaceae is usually bilocular [occasionally trilocular in Cayratia, or unilocular in some species of Cyphostemma (Planchon) Alston, such as Cyphostemma sandersonii (Harvey) Descoings], and that the placentation is axile, although it may sometimes appear parietal (S. M. Ickert-Bond et al. 2014). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 21. | FNA vol. 12, p. 3. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Vitaceae > Cissus | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Viscum verticillatum, C. argentea, C. cordifolia, C. sicyoides | |||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Nicolson & C. E. Jarvis: Taxon 33: 727. (1984) | Jussieu | ||||||||||||||||||||
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