Cissampelos ovalifoliaDC.

WFO wfo-0000605860 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cissampelos ovalifolia, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. a Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-24 / obs. 165567207
Cissampelos ovalifolia, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. b Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100446090
Cissampelos ovalifolia, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. c Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171987308
Cissampelos ovalifolia, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. d Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171987356
Cissampelos ovalifolia, photographed by Leonardo Bergamini
fig. e Leonardo Bergamini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100446143

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Cissampelos ovalifolia is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaGuyanaParaguaySurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Cissampelos ovalifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Guyana GUY
Paraguay PAR
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cissampelos amazonica Miers ex Benth.
  • Cissampelos assimilis Miers ex Benth.
  • Cissampelos communis A.St.-Hil.
  • Cissampelos crenata DC.
  • Cissampelos ebracteata A.St.-Hil.
  • Cissampelos mallophylla Miers
  • Cissampelos ovalifolia f. latifolia Chodat & Hassl.
  • Cissampelos ovalifolia f. longepetiolata Chodat & Hassl.
  • Cissampelos ovalifolia f. ovato-mucronata Chodat & Hassl.
  • Cissampelos ovalifolia f. reniformis Chodat & Hassl.
  • Cissampelos ovalifolia var. cinereoviridis A.St.-Hil.
  • Cissampelos ovalifolia var. cinerescens A.St.-Hil.
  • Cissampelos ovalifolia var. rufescens A.St.-Hil.
  • Cissampelos pareira var. crenata (DC.) Diels
  • Cissampelos pareira var. vestita (Triana & Planch.) Diels
  • Cissampelos rotundata Pohl ex Eichler
  • Cissampelos suborbicularis A.St.-Hil.
  • Cissampelos suborbicularis var. sublanata A.St.-Hil.
  • Cissampelos subtriangularis A.St.-Hil.
  • Cissampelos velutina A.St.-Hil.
  • Cissampelos vestita Triana & Planch.
  • Echites dubius Vell.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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