Cyclanthera (original) (raw)
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Genus of plants
| Cyclanthera | |
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| Cyclanthera pedata | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Cucurbitales |
| Family: | Cucurbitaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cucurbitoideae |
| Tribe: | Sicyoeae |
| Genus: | CyclantheraSchrad. 1831[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cyclanthera pedata(L.) Schrader | |
| Species | |
| Several, including: Cyclanthera brachystachya Cyclanthera carthagenensis Cyclanthera pedata Cyclanthera tenuifolia Cyclanthera tenuisepala | |
| Synonyms | |
| Cremastopus Paul G.Wilson, Hooker's Icon. Pl. 36: t. 3586. (1962) Discanthera Torr. & A. Gray Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1: 696. (1840) Heterosicyos (S.Watson) Cockerell, Bot. Gaz. 24: 378. 1897, nom. illeg. non Welw. ex Hook. & Benth. (1867) Sicyos sect. Heterosicyos S.Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 23: 274. (1888) Pseudocyclanthera Mart. Crov. Notul. Syst. (Paris) 15: 56. (1954) Rytidostylis Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 424. (1841) |
Cyclanthera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae. The name comes from the fact that some species show extreme cases of stamen fusion forming a ring around the gynoecium, with a single locule.
- ^ Schrader, H.A. (1831) Index Seminum (Göttingen) 1831: 2.
- Schaefer, H. & Renner, S.S. (2011) Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), Taxon, 60 (1): 122–138.
- Kearns, D.M. & Jones, E. (1992) A re-evaluation of the genus Cremastopus (Cucurbitaceae). Madroño 39: 301-303.
- Lira Saade, R. (1995) Estudios taxonómicos y ecogeográficos de las Cucurbitaceae latinoamericanas de importancia económica. Rome: IPGRI.
Media related to Cyclanthera at Wikimedia Commons- " Multilingual taxonomic information". University of Melbourne.
