Cyclanthera
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Cyclanthera pedata | |
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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.
References
- ^ 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.
External links
- Media related to Cyclanthera at Wikimedia Commons
- " Multilingual taxonomic information". University of Melbourne.
- Data related to Cyclanthera at Wikispecies
- "Cyclanthera" at the Encyclopedia of Life