Cissus verticillata(L.) Nicolson & C.E.Jarvis

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WFO wfo-0000607033 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cissus verticillata, photographed by Rodrigo Cesáreo Pampin
fig. a Rodrigo Cesáreo Pampin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-04 / obs. 195210321
Cissus verticillata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. b Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193390158
Cissus verticillata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. c Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191776349
Cissus verticillata, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. d Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192918739
Cissus verticillata, photographed by Jordi Martínez Martínez
fig. e Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192650274
Cissus verticillata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. f Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185844741
Cissus verticillata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. g Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185845286
Cissus verticillata, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. h Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185952348

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
540880
Filed as
Cissus verticillata (L.) Nicolson & C.E.Jarvis
Det. by
J. A. Lombardi 1998-10-01
Collected
M. F. de Sales 1995-05-08
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 47 botanical countries

Regions where Cissus verticillata is native: Florida, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. FloridaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSouthwest CaribbeanSurinameTrinidad-TobagoUruguayVenezuela ArubaBahamasBermudaCayman Is.GalápagosLeeward Is.Netherlands AntillesVenezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Cissus verticillata, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Aruba ARU
Bahamas BAH
Belize BLZ
Bermuda BER
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Galápagos GAL
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
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 90 in flower of 190 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Cissus verticillata 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. 90 of 190 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 2,026 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.8 °C 15.6 °C 23.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.0 °C 30.2 °C 33.3 °C
Annual rainfall 695 mm 1,473 mm 3,127 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 9 mm 146 mm 322 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 2,026 research-grade observations of Cissus verticillata 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 95 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 albonitens Linden & André
  • Cissus andraeana Planch.
  • Cissus argentea Linden
  • Cissus buchii Urb.
  • Cissus canescens Lam.
  • Cissus compressicaulis Ruiz & Pav.
  • Cissus cordifolia L.
  • Cissus digitinervis Ram.Goyena
  • Cissus dissecta Urb. & Ekman
  • Cissus elliptica Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Cissus endresii H.J.Veitch
  • Cissus glauca Thwaites
  • Cissus gonavensis Urb. & Ekman
  • Cissus lamarckiana Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Cissus latifolia Descourt.
  • Cissus lindenii André
  • Cissus micrantha Poir.
  • Cissus micrantha var. tripartita Urb. & Ekman
  • Cissus nitida Vell.
  • Cissus oblongolanceolata (Krug & Urb.) Urb.
  • Cissus obscura DC.
  • Cissus obtusata Benth.
  • Cissus officinalis Klotzsch
  • Cissus ovata Rich.

and 71 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.