Anguria Jacq.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Cucurbitaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Climbing vines, with slender simple tendrils, the leaves various, the polygamous flowers mostly small, clustered at the end of a long peduncle, the calyx and corolla of staminate and pistillate flowers similar. Calyx with an elongated, more or less swollen tube and a 5-eleft or 5-toothed limb. Corolla 5-parted, rotate. Staminate flowers with 2 included stamens, the filaments short, the anther-sacs narrow. Pistillate flowers with 2 rudimentary stamens, an ovoid ovary, a slender 2-cleft style, the stigmas 2-cleft. Fruit many seeded, ovoid or oblong. [Greek, similar to water melons.] Species 40 or 50, all American. Type species: Anguria pedata Jacq.