Cissus erosaRich.

caro de tres hojas

WFO wfo-0000606261 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cissus erosa, photographed by Shawn O'Donnell
fig. a Shawn O'Donnell, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205048101
Cissus erosa, photographed by KATELL UGUEN
fig. b KATELL UGUEN, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202680942
Cissus erosa, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. c Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146134817
Cissus erosa, photographed by Aitor
fig. d Aitor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82324952
Cissus erosa, photographed by keesgroenendijk
fig. e keesgroenendijk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74654595
Cissus erosa, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. f Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69817975
Cissus erosa, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. g Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1199650
Cissus erosa, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. h Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83198852

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
840949
Filed as
Cissus erosa (L.) Rich.
Det. by
S. F. Smith 1989-01-01
Collected
J. Brinker 1989-01-28
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Cissus erosa is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Cissus erosa, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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.

Flowering 43 in flower of 52 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Cissus erosa observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 43 of 52 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 426 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.0 °C 20.3 °C 24.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.5 °C 30.8 °C 33.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,122 mm 1,978 mm 3,909 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 21 mm 128 mm 548 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 426 research-grade observations of Cissus erosa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 36 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.

  • Cissus burchellii (Baker) Planch.
  • Cissus duarteana var. sessilifolia (Baker) Planch.
  • Cissus elongata Miq.
  • Cissus elongata var. linearifolia (Baker) Hoehne
  • Cissus epidendrica Vell.
  • Cissus epidendron Eichler
  • Cissus erosa subsp. erosa
  • Cissus erosa subsp. linearifolia (Baker) Lombardi
  • Cissus erosa var. erosa
  • Cissus erosa var. guaranitica Hassl.
  • Cissus erosa var. linearifolia (Baker) Hoehne
  • Cissus erosa var. salutaris (Kunth) Planch.
  • Cissus guaranitica Chodat
  • Cissus inundata var. suberecta (Baker) Planch.
  • Cissus lucida Poir.
  • Cissus matudae Lundell
  • Cissus obliqua Sessé & Moc.
  • Cissus pohlii (Baker) Planch.
  • Cissus quadrialata Kunth
  • Cissus salutaris Kunth
  • Cissus scabra (Baker) Planch.
  • Cissus semivirgata Planch.
  • Cissus sexangularis Ernst
  • Cissus suberecta (Baker) Malme

and 12 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.