Cissus striata
ζ*Cissus striata Ruíz Lopez et Pavón ζ* has been collected wild at Bluecliffs Station, near St Andrews, S. Canterbury, where it has spread from cultivation and is now a weed on the margin of adjoining scrub forest. An evergreen climbing and trailing shrub with simple or forked filiform tendrils; lvs compound; leaflets 5, sessile or subsessile, glabrous, obovate, 1.2-3.5 × 0.6-1.7 cm. Fls 4-merous, green, in small axillary and terminal cymes; frs 5-9 mm diam., red at first and becoming black when mature, containing dark red juice. (Southern S. America, 1988).
