Creeper is too general, it's an umbrella term rather, to any botanist "une liane" is "a liane"..."vine" is also an umbrella term used for many climbers...so Ipomea is a vine as is a clematis for instance....

"Vivace" means fast-growing, so I would call this "a fast-growing endemic liane".

French term (edited): liane vivace spontanée

though I'm not entirely sure that it's the right species (saw somewhere the "true P. brava is v. close relation), this is how it would be called

Cissampelos pareira L.
FL, West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, Australia
Correll and Correll, 530-531‚
Long and Lakela, 416-418‚
Small, 538
Wunderlin, 303
pareira brava
velvety cissampelos
Menispermaceae;
moonseed family
vine, to 5+ m; lvs ovate to suborbicular, entire, transparent glands,
tomentose, palmately veined, tips may be notched; staminate flrs in
axillary panicles, each ca.. 2 mm wide, 4 united petals; pistillate
flrs fewer, in bracted clusters along a rachis, 1 petal per flr, stigma
3-lobed; frt 1-seeded drupe, 4-5 mm long, hairy; hammocks; Dade
Co.; summer. Extirpated?

http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp/botany/images/Notes2003...

maybe it's this? Although it calls it a climbing shrub,
Pareira brava (Chondrodendron tomentosum) is a climbing shrub,
native to Peru and Brazil, and adjacent sections of South America. The
Portuguese missionaries of the seventeenth century who visited Brazil
learned of its reputed qualities from the natives, who under the name
abutua or butua valued it highly for its therapeutic virtues. The
Portuguese gave it the name Pareira brava, or wild vine, with reference
to its mode of growth.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:l-JfdUW_dboJ:www.swsbm....


is it curare? audio descrip.here;-)
http://www.ntbg.org/plants/plant_details.php?plantid=2749
Chondrodendron tomentosum (Menispermaceae)

Alternative Botanical Name:
None found

Common Names:
Curare, grieswurzel, pareira brava, pareira, vigne sauvage, uva-da-serra, uva-do-mato, ampihuasca blanca, antinupa, antinoopa, comida de venados, curari, ourari, woorari, worali, velvet leaf, ice vine, grieswurzel, urari
(Taylor, L. 1998.
Herbal Secrets of the Rainforest.)
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Description:
Curare grows as a large liana, or vine, found in the canopy of the South American rainforest. This woody vine, sometimes 4 inches thick at its base, climbs a considerable height up into the canopy (up to 30 meters high).
It has large alternate, heart-shaped leaves, which may be 4-8 inches long and almost as wide, with a 2-6 inches long petiole. The leaves are smooth on top with a hairy white bottom, and deeply indented veins radiating from the leaf base.
Clusters of small (1/16-1/8 inches), greenish-white flowers are made up of separate male and female flowers.
The fleshy fruits are oval, narrow at the base, and approximately 1-2 mm long.
(Taylor, L. 1998. Herbal Secrets of the Rainforest.)
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or: ~ native to Tropical America