Rhoicissus tridentata(L.f.) Wild & R.B.Drumm.

WFO wfo-0000464567 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rhoicissus tridentata, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. a Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-12-03 / obs. 171863547
Rhoicissus tridentata, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. b Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144324782
Rhoicissus tridentata, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. c Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125198698
Rhoicissus tridentata, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. d Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125181924
Rhoicissus tridentata, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. e Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125199160
Rhoicissus tridentata, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. f Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111273365
Rhoicissus tridentata, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. g Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104830463
Rhoicissus tridentata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63418586

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000285593
Filed as
Rhoicissus tridentata subsp. cuneifolia (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Urton
Det. by
Stannard, B.
Collected
Mott, P.J. 1975-02-09
Origin
BW
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 27 botanical countries

Regions where Rhoicissus tridentata is native: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Yemen AngolaBotswanaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesDjiboutiDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateIvory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabweSaudi ArabiaYemen
Native distribution of Rhoicissus tridentata, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Djibouti DJI
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Saudi Arabia SAU ASIA-TEMPERATE
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 897 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 2.0 °C 6.8 °C 14.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.1 °C 26.1 °C 29.9 °C
Annual rainfall 473 mm 744 mm 1,241 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 14 mm 55 mm 144 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 897 research-grade observations of Rhoicissus tridentata 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 25 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 cirrhiflora Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Cissus cuneifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Cissus dimidiata (Thunb.) Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Cissus erythrodes (Fresen.) Hochst. ex Miq.
  • Cissus pauciflora DC.
  • Cissus sericea Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Cissus tridentata Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Rhoicissus cuneifolia (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Planch.
  • Rhoicissus dimidiata (Thunb.) Gilg & M.Brandt
  • Rhoicissus erythrodes (Fresen.) Planch.
  • Rhoicissus erythrodes var. ferrugonea (Baker) Planch.
  • Rhoicissus holstii Engl.
  • Rhoicissus pauciflora (DC.) Planch.
  • Rhoicissus sericea (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Planch.
  • Rhoicissus usambarensis Gilg
  • Rhoicissus verdickii De Wild.
  • Rhus dimidiata Thunb.
  • Rhus dimidiatum Thunb.
  • Rhus hirta Harv. ex Engl.
  • Rhus tridentata L.f.
  • Rhus tridentatum L.f.
  • Toxicodendron tridentatum Kuntze
  • Vitis cuneifolia (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Kuntze
  • Vitis erythrodes Fresen.

and 1 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. 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.