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Cissus sterculiifolia (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Planch.
Family Vitaceae
Common name: Yaroong

Cissus sterculiifolia (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Planch. APNI*

Description: Woody climber, ± glabrous; tendrils unbranched.

Leaves palmately compound; leaflets mostly 5, elliptic or obovate (sometimes broadly so), 5–15 cm long, 15–80 mm wide, apex acuminate, base tapering into petiolule, margins entire or less commonly irregularly toothed, both surfaces glabrous and green, several prominent domatia present; petiole 2–8 cm long, petiolules 5–20 mm long.

Inflorescences umbellate, 3–8 cm long. Petals 1.5–2 mm long, white.

Fruit globose to obovoid, c. 15 mm diam., purplish.


Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: late spring to summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Widespread but not common, in subtropical and littoral rainforest; north from Jervis Bay.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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