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Sicydium tamnifolium

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Kunth) Cogniaux

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• forest
• disturbed areas
• pasture
• riverside
• thickets

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Annual tendril vine or slender pubescent liana, sometimes prostrate, with heart-shaped leaves to 100mm x 80mm, simple or bifid tendrils. Panicles of pale greenish-yellow to white flowers to 1.5mm long, villous corolla & sepals, staminate panicle to 300mm long, corolla lobes to 1.5mm long. Male flowers with green sepals & yellow petals. Fruit a black drupe to 11mm diameter

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Standley
• Academia