Clematicissus Planchon (1887: 422)

Lombardi, Julio Antonio, 2015, New combinations for the South American Cissus striata clade (Vitaceae), Phytotaxa 227 (3), pp. 295-298 : 295

Clematicissus Planchon (1887: 422)

Type species: Clematicissus angustissima ( Mueller 1859b: 141) Planchon (1887: 422) .

Lianas, rootstock commonly present. Trichomes, when present, unbranched, eglandular. Tendrils leaf-opposed, mostly dichotomously branched, lacking adhesive discs. Leaves alternate, palmate, petiolate, stipulate, stipule adnate to petiole base. Inflorescences compound cymes, leaf-opposite, sometimes with tendrilous branches. Flowers pedicellate, bisexual, 4- (South American species) or 5-merous (Australian species); calyx cotyliform; corolla early caducous; stamens opposite to petals; disc intrastaminal, adnate to ovary base; ovary 2-locular, locules 2-ovuled, style short, conical, stigma rounded. Fruit berry, globose or spheroidal, purple, purple-black or green, 1–4 seeded. Seeds obovoid, chalaza marked on dorsal surface, two furrows on ventral surface.

Six species, two from Australia, four from South America, including the only Vitaceae species occurring in Chile ( Jackes 1989, Lombardi 2000, Jackes & Rossetto 2006).