Common name: Kangaroo Vine, Water Vine
Apocissus antarctica (Vent.) Jackes & Trias-Blasi APNI* 
Description: Woody climbers with new growth ± rusty-pubescent, often glabrescent with age; tendrils simple or 2-branched.
Leaves simple, petiole 1–4 cm long, lamina ovate to ovate-oblong, mostly 4–12(-14) cm long, 20–50(90) mm wide, apex acuminate to obtuse, base mostly rounded, margins toothed or serrate to entire, upper surface ± glabrous at maturity, lower surface usually rusty-hairy with prominent raised domatia.
Inflorescences congested, 1–3 cm long. Petals 1.5–2 mm long, pale yellow, pubescent.
Fruit globose, 8–12 mm diam., purplish to black at maturity.
Flowering: spring–summer(-autumn).
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in warmer rainforest; chiefly in coastal regions north from Tathra and inland to the Liverpool Ra.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Specimens with ± entire glabrous leaves and fewer domatia and unbranched tendrils are now separated as A. oblonga.
Text by G. J. Harden; updated by R. L. Barrett, January 2025
Taxon concept: Jackes, B.R. & Trias-Blasi, A. (2023). Apocissus Jackes & Trias-Blasi, a new genus in the Vitaceae. Austrobaileya 13: 94–104.
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