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Cayaponia attenuata

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Hooker & Arnott) Cogniaux

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Roadside thickets
• savanna
• forest

Flowering Times

• Oct-May (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Feb (Mexico) Oct-May (Nicaragua)

Herbaceous simple tendril climber or trailer with glabrous stems. Scabrous trilobate denticulate leaves to 150m x 110mm. Panicles of axillary greenish-white flowers turning yellow or solitary flowers, calyx tube to 10mm x 20mm, sepals to 2mm long, green corolla to 5mm long. Small green round fruits ripening orange to 12mm diameter.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• WFO
• USNH
• Standley