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Echinopepon racemosus

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Steudel) C. Jeffrey

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Ceará
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• shrublands
• forest edge
• grassland
• cultivated land
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

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

Hairy herbaceous twining trifid tendril vine or prostrate vine with 5-lobed leaves to 150mm x 150mm, sparsely pubescent above & hirsute beneath. Male panicles 250mm long of about twelve white 15mm wide flowers, flowers with green veins at base to 8mm long, tomentose calyx with teeth 4mm long.Lanate 60mm x 20mm green fruit aging brown & sharp bristles to 30mm or more

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• FB