ABSTRACT
Cissampelos pareira is one of those nondescript climbers that people rarely look at closely, even if they are supposed to be critical. This climber occurs in the American tropics, through the Old World tropics, and in Australia (Mabberley 1997). The vine has 101 scientific names that have been applied to it (synonyms) because of its variability and the fact that people did not examine it closely.
