Cissus anisophylla

Cissus anisophylla is a plant species known from lowland rainforests of Panamá, Colombia, Chiapas, Brazil, Perú, Costa Rica and Ecuador.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Cissus anisophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Vitales
Family: Vitaceae
Genus: Cissus
Species:
C. anisophylla
Binomial name
Cissus anisophylla
Lombardi

Cissus anisophylla is a liana climbing over other vegetation by means of branched tendrils. Stems are round in cross-section, hairless. Leaves are broadly ovate, up to 14 cm long and 10 cm across. Flowers are green, about 5 mm in diameter, borne in compound cymes up to 6 cm across, with minutely hairy peduncles.[2][8]

References
  1. Tropicos, Cissus anisophylla, distribution
  2. Lombardi, J. A. 1997. Two new species of Cissus (Vitaceae) from Central and South America. Novon 7(2): 182–185.
  3. Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2014. Saururaceae a Zygophyllaceae. 2(3): ined. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
  4. Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
  5. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro.
  6. Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador, Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i–viii, 1–1181.
  7. Lombardi, J. A. 2001. 115. Vitaceae. 67: 1–37. In G. W. Harling & L. Andersson (eds.) Flora del Ecuador. University of Göteborg, Göteborg.
  8. "Field Museum of Chicago Neotropical Herbarium Specimens". Archived from the original on 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2014-02-24.


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