Indoor Hanging plant- Cissus discolor: Floral formula

Habit: Perennial, evergreen climbing vine, usually 2–5 meters in length when provided with support; forms attractive trailing or climbing growth and is widely cultivated as an ornamental foliage plant

Root: Adventitious, fibrous roots arising from stem nodes and the basal stem; roots aid in anchorage, water absorption, and vegetative propagation

Stem: Climbing, slender, herbaceous to semi-woody, branched, flexible, green to reddish-purple; stems possess tendrils opposite the leaves that enable the plant to climb supports

Leaf: Alternate, petiolate, simple, ovate to cordate-lanceolate, 8–15 cm long; margin serrate, stipulate; upper surface velvety dark green with striking silver markings along the veins, while the lower surface is deep reddish-purple; apex acuminate and base cordate

Inflorescence: Axillary cymes, small and branched, bearing several inconspicuous flowers

Flower: Bracteate, complete, actinomorphic, bisexual, hypogynous; flowers small, greenish-yellow, and inconspicuous

Calyx: Sepals 4, united at the base, forming a small cup-like structure; valvate aestivation

Corolla: Petals 4, free, greenish-yellow, fleshy, valvate aestivation

Androecium: Stamens 4, free, opposite the petals; anthers dithecous, dehiscing longitudinally

Gynoecium: Ovary superior, bicarpellary, syncarpous, usually bilocular; placentation axile; style short, stigma capitate

Fruit: Berry, small, globose, reddish to purplish-black when ripe, containing 1–4 seeds

Floral Formula: Br ⊕ ⚥ K(4) C4 A4 G̲(2)

Systematic Position
Division – Angiospermae
Class – Dicotyledonae
Order – Vitales
Family – Vitaceae
Genus – Cissus
Species – discolor