Cissampelos
Cissampelos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae. Various species of this genus have a history of use in various traditions of herbal medicine. Moreover, many of these plants were used as curare applied as arrow poison during hunting.
Cissampelos pareira is used in Chinese herbology. The species is also known as abuta in Ayurvedic medicine. The Maasai people of Kenya use Cissampelos mucronata as a forage for their cattle.
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Cape Moonseed Vine
speciesCissampelos capensis
Velvetleaf
speciesCissampelos pareira
Cissampelos torulosa
speciesCissampelos torulosa
Ivy-Vine
speciesCissampelos mucronata
Cissampelos ovalifolia
speciesCissampelos ovalifolia
Cissampelos andromorpha
speciesCissampelos andromorpha
Cissampelos tropaeolifolia
speciesCissampelos tropaeolifolia
Cissampelos glaberrima
speciesCissampelos glaberrima
Cissampelos hirta
speciesCissampelos hirta
Cissampelos sympodialis
speciesCissampelos sympodialis
Cissampelos grandifolia
speciesCissampelos grandifolia
Cissampelos fasciculata
speciesCissampelos fasciculata
Cissampelos owariensis
speciesCissampelos owariensis
Cissampelos nigrescens
speciesCissampelos nigrescens
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 157152.