Cardiopteris moluccana, commonly known as blood vine, is a climbing plant in the citronella family Cardiopteridaceae native to areas from the Philippines south to Queensland, Australia. It is a twining vine with a stem diameter up to . The outer bark has deep, longitudinal corky ridges and the leaves are usually . It was first described by Dutch botanist Carl Ludwig Blume in 1847.
Distribution and habitat The native range of Cardiopteris moluccana is the Philippines, Sulawesi, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands and Queensland. In Australia it occurs on the east coast from around Rossville to about Ingham, and inhabits in rainforest from sea level to about .
Conservation This species is listed as "special least concern" under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act, a rating that lies between "least concern" and "near threatened". , it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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View a map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium View observations of this species on iNaturalist View images of this species on Flickriver.com