page_title: Cyphostemma
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Cyphostemma / Selected species
context_page_description: Cyphostemma is a flowering plant genus in the family Vitaceae, with around 250 species distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics. These species are caudiciform and used to belong to the genus Cissus. The genus name comes from Greek kyphos, meaning hump, and stemma, meaning garland.
  Within the Vitaceae, Cyphostemma is most closely related to Cayratia and Tetrastigma. All species of Cyphostemma were once included in the genus Cissus but are now considered to be distinct.
context_section_description: There are about 260 species in the genus.
  C. abercornense Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. adamii Desc.
  C. adenanthum (Fresen.) Desc.
  C. adenocarpum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. adenocaule (Steud. ex A.Rich.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. adenocephalum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. adenopodum (Sprague) Desc.
  C. agnus-castus (Planch.) Desc.
  C. allophyloides (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. alnifolium (Schweinf. ex Planch.) Desc.
  C. amplexicaule Desc.
  C. anatomicum (C.A.Sm.) Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. ankirihitrensis Desc.
  C. auriculata (Roxb.) P.Singh & B.V.Shetty
  C. auriculatum (Roxb.) P.Singh & B.V.Shetty
  C. bainesii (Hook.f.) Desc.
  C. bambuseti (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. barbosae Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. betiforme (Chiov.) Vollesen
  C. bidgoodiae Verdc.
  C. biternatum (Baker) Desc.
  C. boranense Vollesen
  C. bororense (Klotzsch) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. braunii (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. brieyi (De Wild.) Compère
  C. buchananii (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. bullatum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. burgeri Vollesen
  C. cabui (Dewit) Desc.
  C. camerounense Desc.
  C. chevalieri (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. chloroleucum (Welw.ex Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. chrysadenium (Gilg) Desc.
  C. cirrhosum (Thunb.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. congestum (Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. congoense (auct.) Desc.
  C. connivens (Lam.) Desc.
  C. conradsii (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. cornigera Desc.
  C. cornus-africani Thulin
  C. crassiusculum (Baker) Desc.
  C. crinitum (Planch.) Desc.
  C. cristigera Desc.
  C. crithmifolium (Chiov.) Desc.
  C. crotalarioides (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. cryptoglandulosum Verdc.
  C. cuneatum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. currorii (Hook.f.) Desc.
  C. curvipodum (Baker) Desc.
  C. cymosum (Schumach. & Thonn.) Desc.
  C. cyphopetalum (Fresen.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. dasycarpum Verdc.
  C. dasypleurum (C.A.Sm.) J.J.M.Van der Merwe
  C. decurrens (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. degraeri (Dewit) Desc.
  C. delphinensis Desc.
  C. dembianensis (Chiov.) Vollesen
  C. descoingsii Lavie
  C. desenfansii (Dewit) Desc.
  C. digitatum (Forssk.) Desc.
  C. duparquettii (Planch.) Desc.
  C. dysocarpum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. echinocarpa Desc.
  C. egregium (Gilg) Desc.
  C. elephantopus Desc.
  C. elisabethvilleanum (Dewit) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. eminii (Gilg) Desc.
  C. engleri (Gilg) Desc.
  C. erythreae (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. erythrocephalum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. feddeanum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. flavicans (Baker) Desc.
  C. flaviflorum (Sprague) Desc.
  C. fragariifolium (Bojer ex Planch.) Desc.
  C. fugosioides (Gilg) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. gigantophyllum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. gillettii (De Wild. & T.Durand) Desc.
  C. glandulosissimum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. glanduloso-pilosa Desc.
  C. gracillimum (Werderm.) Desc.
  C. grahamii Verdc.
  C. grandistipulatum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. graniticum (Wild & R.B.Drumm.) Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. greenwayi Verdc.
  C. greveanum Desc.
  C. griseorubrum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. hardyi Retief
  C. haumanii (Dewit) Desc.
  C. hereroense (Schinz) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. heterotrichum (Gilg & R.E.Fr.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. hildebrandtii (Gilg) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. hispidiflorum (C.A.Sm.) J.J.M.Van der Merwe
  C. homblei (De Wild.) Desc.
  C. horombense Desc.
  C. huillense (Exell & Mendonça) Desc.
  C. humile (N.E.Br.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. hypargyreum (Gilg) Desc.
  C. hypoleucum (Harv.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. jaegeri (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. jiguu Verdc.
  C. johannis (Exell & Mendonça) Desc.
  C. juttae (Dinter & Gilg) Desc.
  C. kaniamae (Mullend. ex Dewit) Desc.
  C. kapiriense (Dewit) Desc.
  C. keilii (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. kibweziense Verdc.
  C. kilimandscharicum (Gilg) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. kirkianum (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. kiwakishiense (Dewit) Desc.
  C. knittelii (Gilg) Desc.
  C. kundelunguense Malaisse
  C. lageniflorum (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. lanigerum (Harv.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.
  C. laza Desc.
  C. leandrii Desc.
  C. ledermannii (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc.
  C. lelyi (Hutch.) Desc.
caption: Cyphostemma elephantopus
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