Cissus rotundifoliaLam.

Venezuelan treebine

WFO wfo-0000606779 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cissus rotundifolia, photographed by Presha Soogrim
fig. a Presha Soogrim, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-30 / obs. 150646812
Cissus rotundifolia, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. b Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147438828
Cissus rotundifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 139791891
Cissus rotundifolia, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. d Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105969044
Cissus rotundifolia, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. e Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64245145
Cissus rotundifolia, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. f Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63932430
Cissus rotundifolia, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. g Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62783186
Cissus rotundifolia, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. h Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62662264

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Cissus rotundifolia is native: Burundi, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Réunion, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen BurundiDjiboutiDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZimbabweOmanSaudi ArabiaYemen MauritiusRéunion
Native distribution of Cissus rotundifolia, 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
Burundi BUR AFRICA
Djibouti DJI
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mauritius MAU
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Réunion REU
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM
Oman OMA ASIA-TEMPERATE
Saudi Arabia SAU
Yemen YEM

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 318 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.5 °C 12.4 °C 21.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.3 °C 30.1 °C 32.6 °C
Annual rainfall 495 mm 720 mm 1,153 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 19 mm 49 mm 165 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 318 research-grade observations of Cissus rotundifolia 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.

Also published as 6 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 crassifolia (Baker) Planch.
  • Saelanthus rotundifolius Forssk.
  • Vitis crassifolia Baker
  • Vitis forskahlii Blatt.
  • Vitis pachyphylla Cordem.
  • Vitis rotundifolia (Lam.) Deflers

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.