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Accession Data:

Cissus rotundifolia Vahl

  • Common Name: Arabian Wax Cissus
  • Family: Vitaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: eastern Africa

  • USDA Zone: 10a-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500580
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1108 - AFR:West Bench SC
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 03-24-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: core eudicots
  • Order: Vitales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Vitaceae
  • SubFamily: Vitoideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012

References (internal):

  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • Medicinal Plants - Traditional African Medicine
  • Medicinal Plants
  • Undefined Medicinal Plants
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Zaire / Eritrea / Ethiopia / Somalia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Malawi / Mozambique / Zimbabwe / KwaZulu-Natal / Swaziland / Northern Provinces / Saudi Arabia / Yemen

References (external):

  1. Arabia’s Last Forests under Threat: Plant Biodiversity and Conservation in the Valley Forest of Jabal Bura (Yemen), Edinburgh Journal of Botany 65(1):113–135 (2008)
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, August 22, 2018.
  3. Cissus rotundifolia at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Wednesday, August 22, 2018.

data regenerated on Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:57:01 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Vitaceae

Subfamily Leeoideae

  • Leea guineensis

Subfamily Vitoideae

  • Cissus alata
  • Cissus javana
  • Cissus quadrangularis
  • Cissus rotundifolia
  • Cissus tiliacea
  • Cissus verticillata
  • Cyphostemma cf. juttae
  • Cyphostemma currorii
  • Cyphostemma juttae
  • Cyphostemma uter
  • Rhoicissus capensis
  • Tetrastigma voinierianum
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
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= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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