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Sicyos baderoa

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

Hooker & Arnott

Common Names

• Putahllanku (Peru)
• Potajllanku (Peru)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• N. & C. Chile
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• disturbed areas
• cultivated areas
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Nov

Sparsely hirsute tendril vine with 3-5 lobed leaves glabrous both surfaces or hispid below to 100mm x 100mm. Greenish-white flowers, male umbels to 110mm long with 3-8 2mm flowers, calyx tube to 3mm across, corolla lobes 2mm across. Female flowers smaller than male. Sparsely villous warty fruit becoming glabrous ripening yellow 6mm x 5mm x 3.5mm with a few coarse spines, trifid tendrils,

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE