Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 202 (1753).

Derivation: Latin bedera, ivy.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Woody evergreen climbers or shrubs with peltate or stellate hairs; adventitious roots numerous along aerial stems and branches; leaves alternate, simple, entire or palmately lobed, narrowly elliptic to suborbicular, glossy, dark-green, exstipulate.

flowers bisexual, in many-flowered pedunculate umbels which are simple or combined to form particles of umbels, pedicellate; sepals minute, deltate; petals valvate; ovary semi-inferior, 5-celled, surmounted by a conspicuous domed disk, terminating in a single short style.

Fruit a globose berry with 2-5 whitish seeds.

Distribution:  About 15 species in Europe, North Africa, Asia and Qld.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available