Menispermaceae FAMILY

Cissampelos pareira

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

3/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Cissampelos pareira is a dioecious climbing plant or scandent shrub with twining, woody stems that can grow high into the surrounding trees[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 360 Title Philippine Medicinal Plants Publication Author Website http://www.stuartxchange.org/CompleteList.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A lovely site, giving brief details on the medicinal uses of several hundred (over 400 at the last count) plants in the Philippines, plus a picture of each plant. ]. The plant is often used locally in traditional medicine, being mainly collected from the wild[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. It is also occasionally cultivated for medicinal use, whilst it is commonly planted in orchards, parks and gardens for its ornamental value[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The plant is only occasionally traded internationally. In some countries it is a permitted substitute for Chondrodendron tomentosum from South America in the drug 'pareira brava'[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangePantropical.

HabitatRainforest, coastal evergreen bushland and deciduous bushland, at elevations up to 2,300 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. It often persists on cleared ground and in plantations, and can also be found in secondary vegetation and near rock outcrops[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].