Cissus antarctica

Species of vine

Cissus antarctica

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Vitales
Family:  | Vitaceae
Genus:  | Cissus
Species:  |

C. antarctica

Binomial name
Cissus antarctica

Vent.

Cissus antarctica (synonym Cissus oblongata[1]), called kangaroo vine, is one of the best known species of the genus Cissus in the family of Vitaceae. It is a climbing plant, a vine, and comes from Australia.

## Description

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Fruit: Cissus antarctica

It is a climbing plant with new growths that are rusty in colour, and often become glabrescent with age, with simple or branched tendrils. The leaves are simple, ovate to ovate-oblong, mostly 4-12 cm long, 20-50 mm wide, the apex pointed, the base mostly rounded, the margins toothed all over the surface, the upper surface is glabrous, the underside generally rusty and hairy with petiole 1-3 cm long.

The inflorescences are dense, 1-3 cm long. Petals 2 mm long, yellowish. The fruit is globose, 15 mm in diameter and purple.

## Habitat

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It is found in warmer rainforest, mainly in coastal regions north of Tathra in New South Wales and inland on the Liverpool Range, to Queensland.

## Cultivation

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Cissus antarctica is often used as a vine in subtropical climates, such as California, as an ornamental plant in gardens.

Kangaroo vine also is a popular interior or houseplant, a well adapted plant, even in subdued light. It does not do well above 15 °C, especially when exposed to central heating, which can cause the leaves to drop.[2]

## References

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1. ^ New South Wales Flora Online (2013) National Herbarium of NSW, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cissus~antarctica
2. ^ Encyclopédie des jardins d'intérieur, Gründ editor, 3rd quarter 1978, Paris, ISBN 2-7000-0228-8

Taxon identifiers

Cissus antarctica|

* Wikidata: Q2697953
* Wikispecies: Cissus antarctica
* APNI: 69579
* ATRF: Cissus_antarctica
* BioLib: 100185
* BOLD: 570904
* Calflora: 8758
* CoL: VKB2
* EPPO: CIBAN
* FoAO2: Cissus antarctica
* GBIF: 7130688
* iNaturalist: 76359
* IPNI: 67511-1
* ITIS: 897082
* NCBI: 149359
* NZOR: b869fc27-083b-48fa-8c43-1dcb5ef470d6
* Open Tree of Life: 438649
* Plant List: kew-2722165
* PLANTS: CIAN3
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:67511-1
* RHS: 82571
* Tropicos: 34000406
* WFO: wfo-0000606008

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