Common name: Native Grape
Causonis clematidea (F.Muell.) Jackes APNI* 
Description: Weak climber with stems to c. 2 m long, pubescent or glabrous; underground stems usually forming small tubers; tendrils 2- to several-branched, without adhesive discs.
Leaves pedately compound with terminal leaflet largest; leaflets usually 5, ovate to elliptic, 1–8 cm long, 0.5–4 cm wide, apex acuminate to acute, base obtuse to cuneate, margins deeply toothed, both surfaces dull and ± glabrous; petiole 1–8 cm long, petiolules 4–30 mm long.
Inflorescences spreading, peduncles longer than leaves. Petals c. 2.5 mm long, greenish.
Fruit globose to obovoid, 5–7 mm diam., blackish.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread, chiefly on margins of rainforest, north from the Shoalhaven Gorges, west to Tamworth district.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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