Vitaceae
Cissus

Cissus erosa Rich.

First published in Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1: 106 (1792)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to Tropical America. It is a liana and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as a medicine, has environmental uses and social uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

Kew's Tree of Life Explorer

Discover the flowering plant tree of life and the genomic data used to build it.

View the Tree of Life
PAFTOL

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Araújo, D. & Alves, M. (2010). Climbing plants of a fragmented area of lowland Atlantic forest, Igarassu, Pernambuco (northeastern Brazil). Phytotaxa 8: 1-24.
  • Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D.E. Atha (2000). Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 85: 1-246.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Descoings, B. (2011). Contribution à l'étude des Vitacées d'Amérique tropicale IV - Cissus erosa, C. sicyoides et C. ulmifolia. Le Journal de Botanique de la Société Botanique de France 53: 37-54.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Ibarra-Manríquez, G. & al. (2015). Lianas of Mexico. Botanical Sciences 93: 365-417.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Monro, A.K., González, F., Santamaría, D., Chacón, O., Rodríguez, A., Solano, D. Zamora, N. & Correa, M. (2011). A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama. Phytotaxa 322: 1-283.
  • Mota de Oliveira, S. & Jansen-Jacobs, M.J. (eds.) (2016). Flora of the Guianas, Series A 31: 1-169. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • de Moura Júnior, E.G. & al. (2015). Updated checklist of aquatic macrophytes from Northern Brazil. Acta Amazonica 45: 111-132.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Kew Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) https://www.kew.org/science/data-and-resources/tools-and-services/medicinal-plant-names-services in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.or

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D.E. Atha (2000). Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 85: 1-246.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Castañeda, R.R. (1991). Frutas silvestres de Colombia. Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispánica.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2015). Listado de especies de Productos No Maderables del caribe colombiano. 366 registros, aportados por: Garcia, H. (Contacto del Recurso), López Camacho, R. (Creador del recurso), Espitia Palencia, L. (Proveedor del metadatos). Versión 2.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_bst-caribe_plantae_2015
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2013). Servicios ecosistémicos de especies de fauna y flora presentes en la Orinoquía colombiana. 128 registros, aportados por: Salgado, B. (Contacto del recurso), Gutiérrez, J. (Creador del recurso), Bernal, M. (Proveedor de metadatos). Versión 8.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=orinoquia_faunaflora_is_2014
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
May 1, 2015 Hostmann [1301] Suriname K000601709 Holotype Yes
May 1, 2015 Gardner [3076] Brazil K000601706 Lectotype Yes
May 1, 2015 Ratter, J.A.; Fonsêca, S.G.; Fonsêca Filho, J.; Ribeiro, J.F.; Silva, J.C.S. [4088] Brazil K001186409 Yes
May 1, 2015 Burchell [8502] Brazil K000601708 Type Yes
May 1, 2015 Hassler, E. [8131] Paraguay K000601684 Type Yes
May 1, 2015 Hostmann [1301] Suriname K000601710 Isotype Yes
May 1, 2015 Burchell [8309] Brazil K000601707 Type Yes
May 1, 2015 Hassler, E. [8131] Paraguay K000601685 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jan 1, 2008 Rico, L.; Windsor-Shaw, T.; McRobb, A.; Arroyo, L.; Roth, C. [1467] Bolivia K000295354 Yes
Mar 1, 2007 Sasaki, D.; Camargo, A.C.; Rosa, S.A.; Piva, J.H. [1184] Brazil K000447789 Yes
Mar 1, 2007 Sasaki, D. [1080] Brazil K000447788 Yes
Jan 1, 1994 Freire-Fierro, A.; Moraes Barros, E.; Kawall, S. [2092] Brazil K001186445 Yes
Ratter, J.A.; Santos, R.R.; Souza, R.; Ferreira, A. [1400] Brazil K001186434 Yes
Martin [s.n.] French Guiana K000601719 Type Yes
Palmer-Jones, R.W. [17] Suriname K001186427 Yes
Viollati, L.G. [260] Brazil K001186410 Yes
Heringer, E.P. [4174] Brazil K001186428 Yes
Burchell [6473] Brazil K000601715 Unknown Type Material Yes
Schnell, R. [11455] Guyana K001767028 No
Hostmann [129] Suriname K000601721 Unknown Type Material Yes
Gardner [344] Brazil K000601716 Unknown Type Material Yes
Eiten, G. [5807] Brazil K001186422 Yes
Harley, R.M.; Souza, R.; Ferreira, A. [11003] Brazil K001186436 Yes
Heringer, E.P. [3371] Brazil K001186429 Yes
Harley, R.M. [11145] Brazil K001186433 Yes
Sagot [86] French Guiana K000601718 Unknown Type Material Yes
Pereira-Silva, G.; et al. [15714] Brazil K001577229 Yes
Claussen, P. [s.n.] Brazil K000601711 Unknown Type Material Yes
Heringer, E.P. [425] Brazil K001186431 Yes
Arbo, M.M. [3155] Brazil K001186417 Yes
Ferreira, L.V. [277] Brazil K001186425 Yes
Moura, O.T. [644] Brazil K001186411 Yes
Fróes, R.L. [20425] Brazil K001186415 Yes
Philcox, D. [3269] Brazil K001186408 Yes
Hostmann [129] Suriname K000601720 Unknown Type Material Yes
França, F. [s.n.] Brazil K001186443 Yes
Jenman, G.S. [1503] Guyana K000601717 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jangoux, J. [165] Brazil K001186444 Yes
Ferreira, L.V. [311] Brazil K001186423 Yes
Batista, M.L. [s.n.] Brazil K001186421 Yes
Souza, M.A.D. [214] Brazil K001186440 Yes
Heringer, E.P. [2851] Brazil K001186430 Yes
Jangoux, J.; Bahia, R.P. [485] Brazil K001186442 Yes
Ule, E. [9579] Brazil K001186420 Yes
Groppo, M., Jr. [560] Brazil K001186439 Yes
Milliken, W. [1901] Brazil K001186446 Yes
Carvalho, A.M. [302] Brazil K001186413 Yes
Pirani, J.R. [1826] Brazil K001186418 Yes
Schomburgk [s.n.] Brazil K000601712 Type Yes
Granville, J.J.; Acevedo, P.; Boyer, A.; Hollenberg, L. [11944] Suriname K001186438 Yes
Beck, H.T. [256] Brazil K001186437 Yes
Queiroz, L.P. [3829] Brazil K001186412 Yes
Onishi, E. [602] Brazil K001186435 Yes
Ferreira, L.V. [277] Brazil K001186426 Yes
Burchell [2736] Brazil K000601713 Unknown Type Material Yes
Heringer, E.P. [5667] Brazil K001186432 Yes
Silva, A. [323] Brazil K001186416 Yes
Hatschbach, G.; Hatschbach, M.; Mota, J.T. [63358] Brazil K001186441 Yes
Pirani, J.R. [1935] Brazil K001186419 Yes
Ferreira, L.V. [s.n.] Brazil K001186424 Yes
Burchell [10074] Brazil K000601714 Unknown Type Material Yes
Prance, G.T.; Ramos, J.F.; Farias, L.G.; Philcox, D. [4854] Brazil K001186414 Yes
Burchell [8539-4] Brazil Cissus burchellii K000601732 Type Yes
Burchell [8423] Brazil Cissus burchellii K000601733 Type Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0