Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  High risk, score: 8 (Go to the risk assessment)

Other Latin names:  Vitis voinieriana Baltet

Common name(s): [more details]

English: chestnut vine, lizard plant

Habit:  vine

Description:  "Vigorous vine; young stems rusty hairy.  Leaves compound; leaflets usually 5 (rarely 3 or 4), broadly obovate, 6-10 inches long, shiny green, ±fleshy, underside rusty brown-hairy, margins wavy to broadly toothed; tendrils long, not forked.  Inflorescence axillary, crowded, much-branched clusters.  Male flowers stamens 5, pistil reduced; female flowers (not seen in Hawai‘i) sterile stamens 4; ovary conical, stigma 4-lobed, nearly sessile.  Fruit not seen in Hawai‘i"  (Staples & Herbst, 2005; p. 573).

Habitat/ecology:  "It is a rampant climber that can cover buildings or large trees if left untrimmed.  This species thrives in deep shade"  (Staples & Herbst, 2005; p. 573).

Propagation:  Seed.  In Hawai‘i, no female plants are present and the species is reproducing vegetatively.

Native range:  Vietnam or Laos  (Staples & Herbst, 2005; p. 573).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Hawai‘i (Big) Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral R. (2005) (p. 573) Blanketing trees along Pepe‘ekeo Scenic Drive Vegetatively reproducing.
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Frohlich, Danielle/Lau, Alex (2007) (p. 12) Voucher cited: D. Frohlich & A. Lau s.n. (BISH 725949). Vegetatively reproducing.

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Vietnam Vietnam	Vietnam (Socialist Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)

Control:  Difficult to control as it sprouts from root suckers (Frohlich & Lau, 2007; p. 12).

Additional information:
Information from the Bugwood Wiki.

Additional online information about Tetrastigma voinierianum is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Tetrastigma voinierianum as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Tetrastigma voinierianum may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Frohlich, Danielle/Lau, Alex. 2007. New plant records from O‘ahu for 2006. In: Evenhuis, Neal L. and Eldredge, Lucias G., eds. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006. Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 96:8-13.

Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral R. 2005. A tropical garden flora: plants cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 908 pp.

Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral/Imada, Clyde T. 2000. Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘i. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 65. 35 pp.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.