Cissus
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Cissus

cissus
grape ivy
seasonvine
sorrelvine
treebine

Hierarchical position of the Genus Cissus

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Rosidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Vitanae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 237. 1992.
  
   Ordo  Vitales Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 72. 29 Apr 1996.
  
   Familia  Vitaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 267. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Grapes
  
   Tribus  Cisseae Rchb.
pub. Handb. Nat. Pfl.-Syst.: 221. 1-7 Oct 1837.
  
   Genus  Cissus L.
pub. (1753)
common name: treebine
  

Named members of the Genus Cissus

1
   Species  ampelopsis Pers.
syn. Ampelopsis cordata
2
   Species  caustica Tussac
syn. Cissus obovata
3
   Species  erosa L.C. Rich.
common name: caro de tres hojas  (Mexico)
4
   Species  incisa auct. non Des Moulins
syn. Cissus trifoliata
5
   Species  intermedia A. Rich.
common name: intermediate treebine
6
   Species  nodosa Blume
common name: Javanese treebine
7
   Species  obovata Vahl
common name: spoonleaf treebine
8
   Species  repens Lam.
common name: cissus
9
   Species  rhombifolia Vahl
common name: grape ivy
10
   Species  rotundifolia (Forssk.) Vahl
common name: Venezuelan treebine
11
   Species  sicyoides L.
syn. Cissus verticillata
  
12
   Species  trifoliata (L.) L.
common name: sorrelvine
13
   Species  tuberculata Jacq.
common name: West Indian treebine
14
   Species  verticillata (L.) D.H. Nicols. & Jarvis
common name: seasonvine

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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