Cissus antarctica
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Vitales |
| Family: | Vitaceae |
| Genus: | Cissus |
| Species: | C. antarctica
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| Binomial name | |
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Cissus antarctica (synonym Cissus oblongata[1]), called kangaroo vine, is one of the best known species of the genus Cissus in the family of Vitaceae. It is a climbing plant, a vine, and comes from Australia.
Description
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It is a climbing plant with new growths that are rusty in colour, and often become glabrescent with age, with simple or branched tendrils. The leaves are simple, ovate to ovate-oblong, mostly 4-12 cm long, 20-50 mm wide, the apex pointed, the base mostly rounded, the margins toothed all over the surface, the upper surface is glabrous, the underside generally rusty and hairy with petiole 1-3 cm long.
The inflorescences are dense, 1-3 cm long. Petals 2 mm long, yellowish. The fruit is globose, 15 mm in diameter and purple.
Habitat
[edit]It is found in warmer rainforest, mainly in coastal regions north of Tathra in New South Wales and inland on the Liverpool Range, to Queensland.
Cultivation
[edit]Cissus antarctica is often used as a vine in subtropical climates, such as California, as an ornamental plant in gardens.
Kangaroo vine also is a popular interior or houseplant, a well adapted plant, even in subdued light. It does not do well above 15 °C, especially when exposed to central heating, which can cause the leaves to drop.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ New South Wales Flora Online (2013) National Herbarium of NSW, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cissus~antarctica
- ^ Encyclopédie des jardins d'intérieur, Gründ editor, 3rd quarter 1978, Paris, ISBN 2-7000-0228-8
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