Cissus javana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Cissus javana DC.

Family: Vitaceae

Synonyms

• Cissus discolor Blume,
• Vitis discolor (Blume) Dalz.

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: mirah (Java), beubeureuman (West Java), rabet dara (Madura)
• Philippines: mangangaria (Marinduque)
• Thailand: dattakua-thao (Bangkok), kham-daeng, lang-daeng (peninsular)
• Vietnam: hồ dằng hai màu.

Distribution

From India to southern China, including South-East Asia, wild and cultivated.

Uses

The sour leaves and young shoots are eaten mixed with other vegetables. Also planted as an ornamental. Medicinally the leaves are used against stomachache.

Observations

A twining shrub up to 15 m long, with bifid tendrils. Leaves distichous, petiolate, ovate to oblong to lanceolate with cordate or truncate base, 5.5-25 cm × 2.5-21 cm, above green with greyish-green blotches, beneath dark red, rarely green. In moderately shady localities up to 1200 m altitude.

Selected sources

7, 61, 66.