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Fevillea cordifolia

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Minas Gerais
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward islands
• SW. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• riversides
• dry forest
• floodplain forest
• forest edge
• lakeside
• disturbed areas
• coastal forest.

Flowering Times

• Feb-Sep (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Sep (Puerto Rico)

Slightly woody perennial pubescent or tomentose twining tendril liana or herbaceous vine to 8m with pilose stems becoming glabrate. Sometimes coriaceous leaves to 200mm x 165mm, entire or lobed, glabrous & three-lobed with glandular spots on both surfaces. Bifid or simple tendrils. Axillary staminate racemes or panicles to 600mm long, purple & yellow-green or pinkish with darker red centre flowers to 4mm long, 10mm diameter, staminate & pistillate similar, calyx 3mm long, calyx lobes 2mm long, yellow or brown petals 4mm long. Pilose fruit subglobose, pale green with lighter spots to 400mm diameter.

Further References

• Mobot
• NHN
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• HUBM
• SAFIO
• Standley