Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cayratia clematidea
Common name
Native grape, Slender grape
Family
Vitaceae
Where found
Forest. Coast, ranges, and tablelands west and north from Jervis Bay. Also between Malua Bay and Tomakin.
Notes
Weak climber with stems to about 10 m long, spreading by underground stems, sometimes rooting at the nodes. Fruit fleshy. Stems longitudinally ridged, hairy with simple hairs when young, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3.4-20 cm long, compound with the terminal leaflet largest; usually with 5 leaflets each 1–8 cm long, 5–40 mm wide, both surfaces dull and more or less hairless, margins deeply toothed, tips pointed. Tendrils 2- to several-branched. Flowers green to white or pinkish, with 4 petals about 2.5 mm long. Flowers in clusters. Flowering: summer. Fruit blackish, globular to oval, 5–7 mm in diameter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cayratia~clematidea (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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