Cissus pallida
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Cissus pallida
Identify Cissus pallida by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Confirm leaf type: Simple (single blade).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Vitaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Cissus pallida.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cissus pallida
- Genus
- Cissus
- Family
- Vitaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Scrub and dry deciduous forest
- Distribution
- India, Himalayas, Sri Lanka
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Goa, Nagaland, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Puducherry
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Simple (single blade)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Cissus pallida itself; the rest are typical of the Vitaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Vitaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Cissus pallida
A member of the Vitaceae family, Cissus pallida is a shrub. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana and 21 other states. It grows in scrub and dry deciduous forest. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Vitaceae
Grape family
Cissus pallida belongs to the Vitaceae family.
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