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Cayaponia cruegeri

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Naudin) Cogniaux

Common Names

• Cabazurana

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated areas
• disturbed areas
• forest remnants
• riverside
• floodplain forest
• swamp edge
• forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• May
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun

Glabrous liana with 3-5 lobed leaves to 200mm x 210mm with denticulate margins. , bifid or trifid tendrils. Solitary flowers or rcemes of fragrant flowers. Male inflorescence to 80mm, flowers green outside, white inside with corolla to 20mm x 12mm. Female flower 35mm long x 18mm, calyx lobes to 1mm, corolla to 16mm x 18mm flowers. Round green glabrous fruits maturing orange or red to 45mm x 37mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• WFO