Cissus

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Vitaceae

• Scientific Name

  Cissus

• Description

  Description - Mostly climbing vines with fleshy foliage. Leaves 3-foliolate or simple, when compound the leaflets commonly separating in drying. Flowers mostly perfect. Petals usually 4, spreading. Disk cup-shaped, adnate to the base of the ovary, mostly 4-lobed. Disk cup-like, 4-lobed. Stamens 4. [Greek, ivy.] A large genus, mostly tropical. Type species: Cissus vitiginea L.