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|accepted_name=Cissus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 117. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Vitaceae;Cissus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Vitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cissus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek kissos, ivy
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 4
|treatment_page=page 20
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Lianas,</b> climbing by tendrils, synoecious or polygamomonoecious. <b>Branches</b>: bark adherent; pith white, continuous through nodes; tendrils unbranched or 2-branched [3–6-branched], without adhesive discs. <b>Leaves</b> simple or palmately compound [pinnately compound]. <b>Inflorescences</b> bisexual or functionally unisexual, leaf-opposed, corymblike cymes, sometimes compound. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or unisexual; calyx cup-shaped, indistinctly 4-lobed; petals 4, distinct; nectary adnate to base of ovary, cup-shaped, entire or 4-lobed; stamens 4; style conic or cylindric, elongate. <b>Berries</b> blue-black to black. <b>Seeds</b> 1(–4) per fruit. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Bermuda;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Pacific Islands;Australia;mostly tropical and subtropical regions.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 350 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Cissus antarctica Ventenat, kangaroo vine, has been reported as escaped in California but probably is not naturalized there. Like C. verticillata, it has simple leaves, but it can be distinguished from that species by having rusty to brown, appressed (versus grayish white, erect) hairs on branchlets and leaves, prominent domatia in the abaxial secondary vein axils (versus no domatia), and dark blue (versus black) fruits.</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves simple, blade unlobed, surfaces usually hairy, sometimes glabrous.
|[[Cissus verticillata|Cissus verticillata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves usually 3-foliolate, sometimes simple and blade 3-lobed, rarely unlobed, surfaces glabrous.
|[[Cissus trifoliata|Cissus trifoliata]]
|}
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|authority=Linnaeus
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|family=Vitaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Bermuda;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Pacific Islands;Australia;mostly tropical and subtropical regions.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
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|genus=Cissus
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