Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Climbing or prostrate, annual or perennial, monoecious or
dioecious, herbs, less often woody lianes, rarely erect
herbs without tendrils. Leaves alternate, palmately veined
and often palmately lobed. Tendrils usually 1
at each node, rarely 0. Flowers unisexual, epigynous,
axillary. Glandular bract-like "probracts" sometimes present at
base of peduncles. Petals usually 5, free or united; corolla
usually actinomorphic. Stamens basically 5 but commonly modified;
staminodes often present in female flowers. Ovary inferior,
1(-3)-locular. Style with 2 or 3 lobes or styles 3. Fruit a
capsule, berry or hard-shelled pepo.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Cucurbitaceae Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=65
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings