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Cayaponia macrocalyx

Botanic Family
Cucurbitaceae
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Glabrous herbaceous vine to 10m, or scandent herb with glabrous stems, simple tendrils. Glabrous or glabrate trilobed leaves to 120mm x 100mm. Staminate flowers 1-4 per inflorescence. with bracts to 3mm, corolla to 52mm x 29mm. Racemes of velvety cream flowers or yellow mottled brown or yellow with short brown hairs, green calyx, calyx tube to 30mm x 30mm with lobes to 3mm long, tomentose corolla to 20mm, whitish outside, yellowish within. Green fruits to 60mm long with one seed, maturing red.

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