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Cyclanthera pedata

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Schrader

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• NW. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Minas Gerias - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• forest
• disturbed areas
• wet areas
• cloud forest
• riverine forest
• thorn scrub woodland
• montane forest
• primary & secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Jul
• Oct
• Dec

Dioecious pubescent simple or bifid annual tendril vine with glabrous stems. Digitate denticulate or crenulate scaberulous leaves with 5-7 leaflets, terminal leaflet to 150mm x 50mm. Up to 30 flowered male panicles or corymbs to 200mm long of greenish white or yellow 2.5mm flowers, glabrous calyx with tube to 4mm wide, setaceous calyx teeth, corolla 2mm long, female flowers to 2.5mm & 70mm x 30mm. Striated greenish fruits to 150mm long with prickles.

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• NYBG
• Neotrop, Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley
• Rubatzky 1997