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Cayaponia racemosa

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Miller) Cogniaux

Common Names

• Jaba-abu
• Cagejon de Chiguire
• Sandía de Culebra (El Salvador)
• Hierba Coral (El Salvador)
• Camara (El Salvador)
• Taranta (El Salvador)
• Coloquintilla

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Belize
• N. Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• tropical rainforest
• pasture
• disturbed areas
• woodland
• hedgerows
• coastal shrubland
• thickets

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Feb-Dec (Puerto Rico)

Simple to trifid tendril herbaceous vine with mostly glabrous stems & leaves. 2-5 lobed leaves with winged petioles, leaves scabrous above, puberulous beneath to 200mm x 200mm, lobes dentate. Axillary racemes of campanulate unisexial flowers to 8mm diameter, creamy yellow to greenish white flowers. Male flowers in 6-20 flowered panicles, racemes or fasciclers, calyx lobes to 1.5mm, corolla to 8mm x 6mm with lobes 3mm diameter. Pistillate flowers with calyx lobes 2.5mm x 1.5mm, corolla to 12mm x 2mm.t 5mm long, tube 3mm long pubescent. Dark green fruit maturing red-orange, oval, to 18mm x 10mm.

Poisonous

Medicinal

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• WFO
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• HUBM
• SAFIO
• Standley