Cempirantai / South Indian Treebine
Cissus vitiginea
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Found in India
- Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- May-December
How to identify Cempirantai
Identify Cempirantai by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climbing shrub habit.
- Confirm leaf type: Simple (single blade).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: May-December.
- In India, compare location records such as Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Vitaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Cempirantai.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cissus vitiginea
- Genus
- Cissus
- Family
- Vitaceae
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Habitat
- Dry and moist deciduous forests also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- India, Sri Lanka
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka
- Found in India
- Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- May-December
- 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 Cempirantai 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.
Local Names
- Tamil
- cempirantai, mutainari
- Malayalam
- nerinnampuli
About Cempirantai
A member of the Vitaceae family, South Indian Treebine (Cissus vitiginea) is a climbing shrub. In India it has been recorded in Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and 2 other states. It grows in dry and moist deciduous forests also in the plains. Flowering and fruiting run from May to December.
Vitaceae
Grape family
Cempirantai belongs to the Vitaceae family.
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